Category Archives: Reviews

When I saw the Spanish science fiction satire The Platform (El Hoyo, Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, my expectations were joyfully subverted. I had expected it to be a preachy film with shallow social commentary. … Continue reading →

In 2013, Disney’s Frozen economically eclipsed all previous Disney Princess films. For those who are new visitors to Arendelle, Frozen is the tale of Elsa the Snow Queen who is gifted with an affinity for ice. After she is cast … Continue reading →

Warning: Review contains full spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far from Home. After reviewing Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, 2018) late last year, I was convinced I couldn’t enjoy another Spider-Man film as … Continue reading →

My Man Godfrey (1936) Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Nic Connole, Julia Desmond, Andrew Doss, Candyce Edwards, Trey Gurley, Sherita Jackson, Jessica Kernan, Joshua Puckett, Anna Standridge, Tylen Watts, Anya Ekaterina, and Andrew Steven Williford.

Blade Runner (1982) serves as one of the pillars of a dystopian future and science fiction cinema that was popular in the 1980s. Now in the 2010s, the 80s have made a resurgent comeback in the form of remakes like … Continue reading →

Western cinema, and by extension much of Western culture, has had a complicated relationship with colonialism. From the pro-British propaganda of Gunga Din to the “cowboys vs. Indians” subgenre that Stagecoach (1939) occupies, European and American representation of the very … Continue reading →

Canoa opens in 1968 with the sound of a typewriter, as a journalist sits late at night in his office, typing up a live report he receives over the phone. The report reads “five students were lynched tonight by the … Continue reading →

Warning: Review contains mild spoilers for Avengers: Endgame based only on trailers and promotional materials. This review also contains full spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War. Well, we are finally here. After twenty-one films spanning eleven years, Avengers: Endgame (Joe and … Continue reading →

Art kills. Simply put, that is the literal message of Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw (2019). Best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), which tackled the seedy and morally dubious practice of sensational reportage, Gilroy returns to Los Angeles, this … Continue reading →

Warning: Review contains mild spoilers for Captain Marvel, based only on trailers and promotional materials. It’s odd to think that, after twenty Marvel Cinematic Universe Films (MCU), there has not been an MCU film with a female lead. Though there … Continue reading →