“One of these days, it’s just gonna be like…” *cocks machine gun I never liked The Office – mainly because I never found it to be as consistently funny as Office Space. The target is generally the same, but Mike Judge did in an hour and a half what that show couldn’t do in over […]
Schindler’s List should be remembered for more than just being a Holocaust movie. It takes more than simply depicting a violent historical subject to make a film as magnificent as Schindler’s List is. Steven Spielberg may have been personally drawn to the subject, but the story he actually told with his 1993 black & white […]
Happy Lisp Day (get it? That’s a May 4th joke.). Star Wars has not been good in nearly two decades, and its last moment of glory came in 2005 with the one-two punch of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Lucasfilm’s Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. History repeats itself in […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on the Cinematic Katzenjammer in March, 2019. ★★★★ “Consequences,” a character says to another. “Consequences,” the second character replies. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum feels like one gigantic set of consequences for the series, in spite of the fact that very little of it is truly explained. […]
★★★ There are multiple moments where John Wick: Chapter 4 looks to be setting itself up to underwhelm, disappoint, or settle for less. Then it defies itself. The series has grown to the point that it makes order out of consequences, and Chapter 4 traverses four separate continents and the greatest number of intercontinental miles […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on the Cinematic Katzenjammer in April, 2017. It is easy to hate Skyler White. And for most of Breaking Bad it was easy to love Walter White. But if the show has a flaw, even when audiences decide they no longer liked or would root for Walter, very […]
On television, you can do anything; except nothing. Despite there being entirely too much of it, I like television today more than I liked it when I was a kid. It is fashionable to label the modern era “the golden age of television.” In reality, that “golden age” ended with a pathetic whimper following the […]
The “Movies of the Century – Year by Year” can be found here. And now the second list to end the year 2022; Merry Christmas to all! This is the list of the century’s best and most significant films, separate from my own list of subjective preferences, but perhaps not entirely so. This list will […]
★★ It won’t be as easy to dismiss Avatar: The Way of Water as it was the first. The closest I can get is to call it “Whale Wars: The Avatar Movie.” But that’s less instinctively intuitive than what everyone called the first: “Dances with Wolves and/or Pocahontas in space with blue cat people.” I’m […]
★½ Ryan Coogler should never have agreed to return for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It is beneath his great talents, a waste of time, and a dishonor to Chadwick Boseman. In the years since Avengers: Endgame played with the space-time continuum to undo the erasure of half the universe by taking away anything and everything […]
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