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Marvelization of Cinema

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Flaming Hot As Cinematic Decay

Flaming Hot As Cinematic Decay

It’s 2045. The studios have gone mad, it’s been ten years since the last non-IP based film broke the top five at the box office, and John Deere: The Movie is set to go head-to-head with Trojan on the prized July 4th release date. A dystopian future for

A Cromulent Transformers Film

A Cromulent Transformers Film

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the only perfectly cromulent entry of the bunch.

Slither and the Arrival of James Gunn

Slither and the Arrival of James Gunn

James Gunn was my first favorite director. And while I know this statement is likely a testament to both my young age and not falling in love with cinema until my late teens, in many ways, I’m glad it took me so long: Gunn’s a perfect first-favorite filmmaker—

BPFF Dispatch: Hush (2022) dir. Samar Qutpy / Salma's Home (2022) dir. Hanadi Elyan

BPFF Dispatch: Hush (2022) dir. Samar Qutpy / Salma's Home (2022) dir. Hanadi Elyan

One doesn’t expect to go into a screening of two small-budget Palestinian dramas and to come out hating Disney and Netflix even more… but what I learned at Thursday night’s double screening of Samar Qupty’s narrative short Hush and Hanadi Elyan’s feature length Salma’s Home is that one must always b

The Many Faces of Amsterdam

The Many Faces of Amsterdam

David O. Russell’s new film is kind of like a moralizing version of the great political thriller The Parallax View with the quips of Bullet Train. [And] I suspect that sounds like an ill-advised way to spend an evening.

Bullet Train At Least Has a Train

Bullet Train At Least Has a Train

The world is a better place every time a new train movie graces a multiplex for the first time. That’s a hill I’m comfortable dying on. And despite all efforts to undermine this by stunt person turned director David Leitch, this is still largely true for Bullet Train.

Top Gun: Maverick, the Best Looking Blockbuster of 2022 ...So Far

Top Gun: Maverick, the Best Looking Blockbuster of 2022 ...So Far

The best movie I’ve seen so far this year with a budget north of 100 million.

"Space Sweepers" and the Incompatibility of Blockbusters and Environmentalism

"Space Sweepers" and the Incompatibility of Blockbusters and Environmentalism

Being flaunted as South Korea’s first space-opera, "Space Sweepers" (or Victory, in the English translation of the Korean title), is less operatic than myopic, being limited by the seeming incompatibility of the blockbuster format with pro-environmentalism stories.