Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s best efforts, the metaverse has a long way to go before it becomes a reality. The only newsworthy thing the social media founder achieved with his costly virtual reality platform is applying functional legs onto stiff digital…
‘The Batman’ review: The Dark Knight returns with a more hopeful take on vengeance
Matt Reeves’ The Batman will likely go down as a mold-breaking movie when it comes to the current state of superhero fatigue, where at this point, most comic-book film franchises have started to blur together, not really going for a…
Wildlife Movie Review: A confident directorial debut from Paul Dano
Paul Dano’s directorial debut is a quiet, contemplative view of the everyday struggles of Americans in the 60s. In the midst of economic struggle, 14-year-old Joe (Ed Oxenbould) watches the disintegration of his parent’s marriage while navigating his new life…
Sundance 2018 Review: Wildlife
Paul Dano’s directorial debut is a quiet, contemplative view of the everyday struggles of Americans in the 60s. In the midst of economic struggle, 14-year-old Joe (Ed Oxenbould) watches the disintegration of his parent’s marriage while navigating his new life…
Movie Review: Okja
Even as adults, I still believe we need fairy tales. There’s that transitionary period in life where we essentially go from a Disney-esque outlook on life to a Grimms’ fairy tale style one. It’s necessary, especially since our adult lives…
Movie Review: Swiss Army Man
The first image that we see in Swiss Army Man is of Hank (Paul Dano) wrapping a noose around his neck. He’s about to commit suicide on a deserted island when he sees a body wash up on the beach.…
TV Review – War and Peace (2016) | A great melodrama, a mediocre adapation
This past Christmas, I received an opulent Folio Society edition of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace from my father. I spent the next month setting out on what fans of the novel refer to as “The Long March.” Even at…