Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
See, it's asymmetrical but it's also still balanced.
Casey grew up in Columbus, Indiana, desperately cares for her mother, and, because of that, fears leaving behind everything she knows and cares for. Jin lives in Seoul, struggles to find concern for his ailing father, and eagerly anticipates the day he can return home. Youthfully unguarded, yet matured from experience, Casey is mesmerizing to be around, while Jin's stoicism and bluntness suggest an "old man" set in his ways, but all…
Dune: Part One presented Paul Atreides as caught between shared lineages favoring profits and prophets, respectively. By the end of Dune: Part Two, a harsher realization settles in. Both forms of control depend on a higher law: everything is a resource.
Spice exploitation becomes the clearest example of that law, but every faction, creature, and character within Dune can be exploited just as easily. The Emperor manipulates the Houses as the Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit leads him by…
You know what got you into your present bag? The machine. The Super Machine. ‘Cause that machine makes machines.
On a drunken binder after betraying a close friend, Tank squares off against a mechanical, white cowboy in an arcade shooting game. Arguably the most iconic figure of American cinema, the cowboy is a potent symbol for white systems of colonization, power, and "restorative" violence, which transforms a game that Tank plays on a lark into a powerful symbol for what…
As much as the third Indiana Jones film is about obsessive tendencies (concisely indicated by the hard cut between young and old Indy, both fighting for the Cross of Coronado), it is also about transference of knowledge. That is to say, where the Nazis burn books, Henry Jones shares them with his son. Indy is a testament to the teachings of his father, following in his academic footsteps and displaying a number of the same personality traits; he's been shaped…
A personal aside before the review: The Alamo Drafthouse in Kansas City continues its run as the most impressive theater in the area by providing a free, early screening of Fury Road, entirely making my week!
(EDIT 08/14/2020 - After reading accounts from KC Alamo employees - some of whom worked there during the time of this Fury Road screening - in The Pitch, I feel awful about promoting and supporting this particular location for so long now knowing that…