Gravity Falls is about twin 12-year olds, Dipper and Mabel, sent to stay with their Great Uncle “Grunkle” Stan who runs a tourist trap, known as the “Mystery Shack”, in Gravity Falls, Oregon. It’s only a short time before they realize that not all is what it seems to be in Gravity Falls, especially after Dipper finds a…
With Straight Outta Compton‘s decisive victory over Ant-Man, Marvel is officially out of the running, but that doesn’t mean Disney is yet. Inside Out has progressed to the final eight, but how will Star Wars: The Force Awakens perform against the stunning sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. Need a refresher on either film? Click the links…
Tim Burton is by no means my favorite filmmaker, and I personally am not that big of a fan of his movies, but I do like talking about them. This is why I find myself writing yet another article about a stop-motion animated, horror-comedy film by Tim Burton. Like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse…
I’ve always felt rather lucky to be someone who has a good relationship with their parents, and one of the tough things about me living in another country is being apart from them. As an only child, I can only assume that it must be even harder for them than it is for me.…
At the time I publish this, I– and likely some of you as well– am a day away from seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that’s almost too much to believe. I mean, it feels like we as a movie watching public have been talking about this movie forever at this point, and in a sense…
Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Iliad, most Shakespeare plays, most Bible stories; stories we all know but nobody can tell correctly on screen. I wrote one of my infamous filler articles from the days of yore on great ancient stories that for some reason baffle and trouble film producers when you’d think they’d probably be really…
I was sold on Tomorrowland from the start. Something about the combination of “Brad Bird” and “big budget sci-fi project” sets me into a frothy, nerdy glee. Surely, this would be big, star-reaching sci-fi. Unfortunately, Tomorrowland felt less like that film and much more like an infomercial for it. The plot: After being released from a prison cell…
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