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The birth of the summer blockbuster, Jaws is a tense psychological thriller that, for the most part, lives up to the hype. As a story, Jaws is kind of basic. The writing itself takes no real liberties to differentiate it from any other film of the time, but what made Jaws stand out was theContinue reading “Jaws”

Clearly, Edgar Wright found something here that he hadn’t in previous films. As opposed to all of his other movies, which were basically all comedic films, Wright cherished the moments that were more serious in Baby Driver. This makes sense, especially due to Edgar Wright’s claim that Baby Driver has been a passion project ofContinue reading “Baby Driver”

In a recent review of Baron Munchausen I wrote, I mentioned that every Gilliam film seemed that it was trying to be a Monty Python film. That all of the story elements were thrown away for comedy that was, largely, re-used material from Monty Python, in terms of style. Fisher King is not that inContinue reading “The Fisher King”

Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is arguably the best Super Hero trilogy of all time. Not only does it present the audience with the right amount of spectacle to keep the engaged, but it also presents a compelling story with a character arc spanning three films. Where the Dark Knight and Batman Begins have storyContinue reading “The Dark Knight Rises”

Watching The Trotsky, I didn’t know quite what to expect. I knew it was a comedy, and I knew it was going to heavily reference Communist history. Other than that, I had no idea what I was about to watch. But, in these times especially, a film we go blind into may be just whatContinue reading “The Trotsky”

Being Spielberg’s first film, I was expecting the Spielberg magic I was used to in movies like Close Encounters and ET, but, that isn’t what I got. As a movie, it’s fine. It has all of the basic principals to be a good film, the overall plot is based on a wonderful true story, andContinue reading “The Sugarland Express”

This is Taika Waititi’s first feature length film, and although it isn’t perfect, there’s a lot of Waititi’s charm that shows in this movie. I’ll start out by stating the obvious, I am a huge Taika Waititi fan. So, I’m going to go through all of his movies, update the ones I’ve already reviewed, andContinue reading “Eagle Vs. Shark”

This movie has made me tired of Terry Gilliam’s work. That isn’t to say that I didn’t like it, I did. And it’s not like Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy where every movie is the same. No, there was something different about this. The problem with Terry Gilliam’s work, so far, is that it’s trying toContinue reading “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”

For me, this is one of those movies that changes everything. This isn’t the first time I’ve watched Inception, but every time I do, I bring a top out and spin it just to be sure I’m not dreaming. Upon, I think my fourth watch, it’s safe to say that I understand so much moreContinue reading “Inception”

Scott Pilgrim may be have, at best, a mediocre story, but, the way the film was made, mostly with its transitions, makes up for this. Scott Pilgrim is a movie about video games, not a video game movie, but a movie about video games. It follows a stereotypical early college guy, played by Michael Cera,Continue reading “Scott Pilgrim Vs the World”