by McKenna Scherer | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
A seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner, James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens was everything people wanted and more following 1979’s Alien. Launching the standard for all sequels far above what was typically expected, the action-and-alien-focused sequel came at a...
by Taylor Nasinec | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, Atomic Blonde is the 2017 espionage thriller with a thick spread of double agents and betrayal during the week prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Directed by the John Wick co-director, David Leitch, his first solo...
by Brinley Zoller | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
Superhero films are the center of pop-culture cinema currently; they are the top grossing movies at the box office, continuously taking audiences and theaters by storm, but why are these fantasy-driven, action-packed films the center of the Hollywood? Is it the luxury...
by Blake Gasner | Nov 15, 2018 | Criticism, Left
Safety Last! is a 1923 silent romantic comedy directed by Fred C. Newmayer and Sam Taylor. Often considered one of the greatest comedies of the 20th century, Safety Last! is most renowned for its famously dangerous scene featuring Harold Lloyd hanging off the hand of...
by Joe Van Ryn | Nov 15, 2018 | Criticism, Left
All Quiet on the Western Front is a pre-code, black and white, American epic anti-war film released in 1930. Directed by Lewis Milestone, the film revolves around a group of young German schoolboys who are talked into enlisting during the onset of World War I by their...
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