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In part one, I highlighted five Black indie animations: Toward Galaxy’s End, The Chaotic Misadventures of Arch & Reggie, Wheels & Roses, Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl, and The Three Tomes. In part two, I highlighted The Moon Odyssey, T-Effect: The Angel’s Sun, Hero Corps: Deep Genesis, Indigo, Captain […]
I’ll admit I know precious little about Thomas Mann, the central figure that looms large both within and over Paweł Pawlikowski’s gorgeous film Fatherland. But that doesn’t matter, as Pawlikowski and screenwriter Henk Handloegten care less about diving into the biographical elements of Mann’s story – in this case, his trip to a divided Germany in […]
Picture someone walking onto the bridge of a starship. Nobody’s spoken yet, and you already know plenty. The color of their uniform tells you what they do for a living. The arrowhead on the chest tells you who they answer to. Maybe there’s a sash over one shoulder, or a jacket that doesn’t quite match […]
If you watched WandaVision, I suspect seeing that this episode was titled “Theseus” immediately brought you back to the moment near the close of that series where White Vision (aka The Vision starring in VisionQuest) encountered the original Vision (or, at least, the memories of The Vision) and the duo had their conversation about the Ship of […]
The Social Reckoning is the spiritual sequel to 2010’s The Social Network. The sequel looks at how Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg not only knew about the social harm the platform has caused but actively encouraged it. Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allan White) is an investigative journalist who takes up a tech reporting job in the Wall […]
A prequel is a thorny undertaking. First, you need to justify why anyone needs to learn the story of what happened before the seminal (or, really, just popular) story that succeeds this jump into the past. And once you’ve done that, the story you’re telling needs to be good enough to stand up to that […]
Welcome to our weekly reviews of VisionQuest, the final piece in the Wanda-Vision trilogy of MCU shows and what appears to be the last television outing for the MCU for the foreseeable future as Disney looks to focus back on film for their superheroes moving forward. Where WandaVision put the focus on Wanda Maximoff and the […]
The Peasants’ Revolt is one of the great historical events that schoolchildren in England are taught. It finally gets a film retelling thanks to Paul Greengrass. In 1381, England was reeling from the aftermath of the Black Death. Half the population had died, and everyone had lost someone, including a nameless ploughman (Andrew Garfield) in […]
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster aced the marketing game for Other Mommy. Its trailer debuted before The Odyssey, and reportedly played ahead of every screening. Promoting it in front of the highest-grossing R-rated movie of the year gave them even more bang for their buck, ensuring it would get maximum attention. Especially since its trailer pulled […]
Avatar: Seven Havens is the long-awaited return of the Avatar animated series. The first three episodes set up a radically new world. 225 years ago, the Avatar caused the Cataclysm, a world-ending event. Civilisation has rebuilt itself as The Seven Havens, with one of them being Ellora. In Ellora are long-lost twin sisters Pavi (Saheli […]