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Jul 27 , 2019

THE LION KING, OR HOW I CAME TO HATE MOVIES

On a rainy Friday afternoon, inside one of the shiny cinema halls of Century Mall, Disney gave the finger to one of the most precious childhood memories of mine. The studio did this by producing a rem...

Jul 20 , 2019

Rocketman

It was only a matter of time before Elton John got his own biopic. he was not only a talented celebrity, he was larger than life, a term used to describe people who would have been social pariahs had...

Jul 13 , 2019

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

Spider-Man: Far from Home's plot betrays Marvel's megalomania and serves to show how widely known the cinematic universe has become. Although the movie explores the bond between the late Tony Stark...

Jul 6 , 2019

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

The Men in Black are back, and they are flashier and significantly drowsier than they have ever been before. Men in Black: International is what remains when the charisma of Will Smith is flushed o...

Jun 29 , 2019

Toy’s Angst

It may not have looked it in the beginning, but a movie about toys that come to life when their owners are not around has managed to elevate itself into a meditation about existentialism and the painf...

Jun 22 , 2019

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PETS

Over two decades after the original Toy Story, The Secret Life of Pets asks what would happen if pets had a fully developed consciousness. Bizarrely, they will not ask to be liberated from the yoke of...

Jun 15 , 2019

JOHN WICK SHOOTS MORE PEOPLE

Keanu Reeves' on-screen character, John Wick, brings his kill count to 300 people in his latest outing. His killing spree, in spectacular fashion - ranging from breaking necks to stabbing people, and...

Jun 8 , 2019

GODZILLA

Godzilla is back to fight yet another monster. The film is flashy, predictable and full of ex-machina - the perfect ingredients for a blockbuster. And yet, it performed poorly at the box office. It is...

Jun 1 , 2019

Aladdin without Robin Williams

There is a disease in Hollywood, and it is one that induces studios to shove the exact same plots down audiences' throats. If it was not for the fact that Aladdin made over a quarter of a billion doll...

May 25 , 2019

Brightburn Fizzles Out

Brightburn asks a critical question. What if Superman was not a good person? What if he did not take to our moral values? The film then proceeds to give us the answer predictably - he kills lots...

May 18 , 2019

Stockholm, Too True to Be Good

A bank robbery took place in 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden. Two robbers held four people hostage for five days. before their captured. After being taken into custody, the two would be sentenced to prison...

May 11 , 2019

Aftermath of Bad Plot, Theme Composition

A bad romantic movie is unwatchable. A bad romantic movie set during wartime is worse. It is not merely unwatchable but distasteful. Making the subject matter of a movie two people's romantic relatio...

May 4 , 2019

Endgame: the Marvel-est Movie Ever Made

Marvel's propaganda has finally worked. Its cinematic universe started with a relatively respectable movie like Iron Man, which led to a deluge of predictable plots, clichés and senseless PG-13 vi...

Apr 26 , 2019

Hellboy Should’ve Stayed Where He Came From

Hellboy is an unlikely superhero. He is not at all good looking to begin with. He is not even movie-ugly, he is ugly-ugly. He is also half demon and looks the part. His skin colour is red, and he h...

Apr 20 , 2019

Winter Has Come, And It’s Monotonous

In the first episode of Game of Thrones' eighth season, there is a scene that involves Bronn (Jerome Flynn), a rather minor character in the show, that has become emblematic of the famed HBO series. ...

Apr 13 , 2019

Shazam, Not with Lightening, but Charm

Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is responsible for superhero movies that take themselves seriously. Nolan succeeded in justifying the possible existence of a vigilante in an extremely corrupti...

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