Today marks a special occasion as this is my 100th review on this website. To celebrate, I decided to do something a little more personal. The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, the prototype of my favorite tv series of all time.
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a 2011 novel that tells the tale of James Halliday, an eccentric genius that created a virtual reality videogame called the OASIS. Upon his death, he set up an elaborate Easter Egg hunt to determine who was worthy of becoming his heir and inheriting his vast riches. The person who discovers the Egg is Wade Watts/Parzival, with a little help from his friends, the High Five, and Halliday’s old business partner Ogden “Og” Marrow. Its film adaptation, which you can read more about here, was released in 2018 and a sequel, Ready Player Two, came out in 2020. Since a film adaptation of Ready Player Two is still a long way away, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at the novel in the meantime.
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Batman Begins should have been entitled The Dark Knight Begins, but hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. After he loses his chance to get his revenge on Joe Chill (Richard Brake), the murder of his parents (Linus Roache, Sara Stewart), Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) sets out on a journey to understand the criminal underworld. Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) finds him and introduces him to the League of Shadows and their mysterious leader Ra’s al Ghul (Ken Watanabe). From them, Bruce learns everything he needs to become Batman.
Continue reading “The trilogy that made Batman movies cool again”
Porno is set in 1992 and concerns a movie theatre that stresses strong Christian values to its employees, the most subtly named of which is Chasity (Jillian Mueller) or Chaz for short. One night they discover this mysterious film reel that they decide to watch after work. The problem is that by doing so, they release a succubus that the credits refer to as Lilith (Katelyn Pearce), but she’s never called that in the movie itself.
Continue reading “It’s an art film, I swear!”
Malcolm (John David Washington) is a filmmaker who has just made a movie he wrote and directed about a drug addict. Marie (Zendaya) is a former actress and drug addict who is currently dating Malcolm. During the movie’s premiere, Malcolm thanks, everyone but Marie. Once home, tensions boil over, and the two of them launch into a whole movie’s worth of arguments.
Continue reading “Just the two of us”
The plot of Zack Snyder’s Justice League is more or less the same as the theatrical cut. (Emphasize on the more, because the runtime of this movie is four hours long.) Following the death of Superman/Clark Kent (Henry Cavill), evil alien Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) has come to conquer Earth in the name of Darkseid (Ray Porter). To do so, he must assemble three Mother Boxes that will allow Steppenwolf to terraform Earth into a copy of his homeworld Apokolips. The only thing standing in his way is Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), who assembles a team of powerful heroes to combat this deadly threat.
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Life has not been going well for Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton). Her dad’s dead, leading her mom Coral (Katie Finneran) to become an alcoholic. She gets bullied by mean girl Ryler (Melissa Collazo), shop teacher Mr. Bernadi (Alan Ruck), and all the jocks at her school besides dreamboat Booker (Uriah Shelton). Then Millie gets attacked by a serial killer, the Blissfield Butcher (Vince Vaughn). Except unlike that one time outside Ebbing, Missouri, she must have a guardian angel watching over her because she survives. Or maybe not, as Butcher using a magical dagger leads to the two of them switching bodies.
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Shadow in the Cloud follows Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz), a Flight Officer fighting alongside the Allies in WWII. At the very last minute, she boards the Fool’s Errand, a bomber plane, with a mysterious package and note saying she will accompany the crew. Given the lack of space on the aircraft, the only place to go is down in the turret, where things steadily go from bad to worse for her.
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Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas (Carey Mulligan) is a coffee shop worker by day but a whole different person by night. She goes to a bar and acts super intoxicated until a “nice guy” who thinks that basic human decency entitles them to sex offers to help. Then she turns the tables on them by revealing she’s not drunk and scaring them into changing their ways—a surprisingly optimistic move for a movie vigilante, who would usually just kill them.
Continue reading “No more Mr. Nice Guy”
To start with, I’d like to apologize. I know I promised to stop bringing up the pandemic in my reviews, but here I have to. For better or worse, Tenet is intertwined with COVID-19, probably more than any other movie that’s come out lately.
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