An antithetical horror story.
After a six year break, GoldenEye became the rebirth of the Bond franchise, this time featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007. While License to Kill marked the end of an era with Bond’s shift from Mi6 agent to rogue vigilante, GoldenEye marks another shift in the tone of Bond films. Perhaps entry into the 1990’s predicated a change […]
The Bret Easton Ellis trope of masturbatory nihilism is obvious in the first few moments of The Canyons upon Ryan’s rhetorical interrogative, “does anyone really know anyone?” The seemingly short distance between the two couples at the restaurant table is cold desert at midnight. Two of them, Ryan and Gina, both of who are looking for careers […]
After a steady succession of films in the Bond franchise released every two years, the much darker and much more violent (until Casino Royale, that is) License to Kill marked the beginning of a six-year hiatus in the Bond franchise before we were privy to the Brosnan generation. It also marked the final film for actor Robert […]
Gru returns, this time as a doting father figure whose loneliness is the biggest villain of the film.
Maybe the film is more meta than we give it credit. Maybe it’s trying to mimic the convoluted natures of our history. Maybe.
A few years back, Pixar built a sequel to its super popular Cars…and this attempt fell flat on most levels, from the pedestrian script to the silly story. Last year, they released Brave, a film that – while it garnered an Academy Award for Best Animated Film – was highly disappointing. The visuals were stunning, as per […]
Timothy Dalton’s first turn as Bond is a departure from his predecessors’.
The follow up to this new franchise feels a lot like it did thirty years ago.
You’re being watched! And, shouldn’t we know this by now?