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The Liberation is a frustrating film. It had a series of truly spectacular performances to anchor the complex themes of the story – a story that is based on writer-director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother’s life story. But it also has an incredibly unsatisfying ending – not unsatisfying in what happens in the film’s final fifteen […]
Oh Vision. Manipulated into giving up the controls to Ultron with a simple appeal to your burgeoning emotional attachment to Thomas. I expected more of you. And yet, that might just be the surest sign that White Vision is slowly but surely morphing into something much closer to The Vision – helped along with malicious […]
Something happened at my screening of The Debut that has never happened at a film I’ve been at before. Following an absolute stunner of a speech from Julianne Moore’s Mona Friedman (a sequence that all but assures Moore is going to get a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar this year, if not start the race […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well, that was a fitting end to a truly muddled season of television. For all of the positive gains Ted Lasso made over the last several episodes – all of which pulled the focus from the host of returning characters (save for Roy and Keeley) and onto the new members of the Lady Greyhounds – […]
Mike Flanagan has done it again – his adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie manages to hit on the key themes of the book (the horrors of high school, the pressure to fit in and the hierarchies that feel almost insurmountable, as well as the pressure to conform into the version of who our […]
Well, I was kinda right about what would occur in this week’s Ted Lasso with regard to Anthony Head*, but was very wrong about just who is buying up shares – although I genuinely don’t think the “Zelda is making a play for Richmond” reveal is an earned twist at all. Outside of that bit […]