Here’s part two of my discussion with the makeshift monster squad featuring Matt Mikalatos and JR Forasteros. Check out part one in case you missed it. If you watch this video you might just soil yourself from fear and/or laughter or maybe just pity. These first two vids are just the warm up. Watch Part […]
Ben Affleck’s third film Argo should cement his status as a director to watch. Gone Baby Gone is still one of my favorite films of all time, and The Town was great. Now he’s given us Argo, a truly incredible piece of storytelling that’s a love letter to cinema, a reflection on how much of […]
Looper is the new sure-to-be-classic Time Travel film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the younger version of Bruce Willis. Spoiler-free take: Go see this movie right now. The world-building is phenomenal. The plot is straight-forward, but still wacky enough you’ll want to see it at least twice. And time-travel is handled expertly, with some ultra-cool implications […]
James Cameron’s Avatar is the most successful film of all time, despite thoughtful and clear-minded critiques of its imperialist and anti-disability messages (there are also some less-thoughtful critiques out there). The picture Avatar paints of our bodies resounds with our larger cultural ambivalence toward them. Avatar demonstrates how we devalue our bodies. Avatar denigrates rather […]
Guy is one of my new blogger friends. He does campus ministry and his blog is a great resource for anyone who works with young adults. Check out his blog, Faith on Campus and follow him on Twitter! In the mid 1990s, the movie Jerry McGuire romanticized the notion of a soul mate — that […]
This summer was one of the most anticipated in movie history, thanks largely to The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. But quite a few other blockbusters debuted this summer. Here’s my take on each of the films, along with links to my original reviews, if I did one. These are only the big-budget blockbuster […]
Maybe it’s time we all quit trying to outsmart the truth and let it have it’s day. — Alfred In Act I (Batman Begins), we meet a Gotham overcome by corruption. The city rots, and crime runs rampant. The few good Gothamites are to afraid of organized crime to make a stand. This fear takes […]
This town deserves a better class of criminal. — The Joker The Dark Knight is Nolan’s second act in a masterful classic three-act story structure. Building on what Act I established, Act II brings the conflict into the open. The main character tries to solve the problem, only to find his situation worsening. He learns […]
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely… A legend, Mr. Wayne. — Ras al Guhl By now it’s undeniable that Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy joins the elite ranks of masterpiece cinematic trilogies. Why? What […]
One of the more common criticisms of The Dark Knight Rises revolves around the apparent ease with which Detective John Blake discerns that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Those defending the film point most often to Robin #3, Tim Drake, who in the comics figures out that Bruce is the Batman and more-or-less argues his way […]