Modern dating is hard. I mean, past dating was hard too, but it didn’t lend itself quite as well to high concept sci-fi as the age of finding romance on Tinder and OKCupid (do people still use that?). In The Lobster, which premiered at Cannes in 2015 and found it way to US theaters this…
Well, it has been a wild ride. Henry VI, Part 1 was—for lack of a better word—horrible. Yeah, horrible pretty much sums it up. Henry VI, Part 2 was pretty good. It certainly did a lot despite the terrible groundwork provided by Part 1, and it gave me hope for this week’s rendition of Richard…
The Book of Life is a computer animated film that centers around the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead. It tells the story told a million times of two men trying to win the heart of the same woman, but adds a bit of a spin on it when two gods bet…
Last week, I gave a resoundingly negative review to the BBC’s continuation of The Hollow Crown series. Their rendition of Henry VI, Part 1 was actually an adaptation of Part 1 and Part 2, and cut out over fifty percent of the two plays, and was otherwise just kind of terrible. That didn’t leave me…
A few years ago the BBC adapted Shakespeare’s first four canonical histories Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V under the collective title of The Hollow Crown, and a little while after that I reviewed each installment as part of my ongoing Brush Up Your Shakespeare series. Well, the BBC recently…
The Boxtrolls is a quirky stop-motion animated film by Laika, the creators of other Academy Award nominated films, Coraline and ParaNorman. While not as great as its other two films, The Boxtrolls is still a fun adventure with well written protagonists, entertaining antagonists, and a rather unique premise. The story goes that 10 years ago,…
I’ve been in the desert. The New Mexican desert. I don’t know about y’all, but this scenery makes me think of one thing and one thing alone: the cowboy movie. I’m not basing this on any sort of well-researched fact or collection of statistical data, but I’m willing to bet all my prestige and credibility…
Rooster Illusion 