While time sapped the visual effect's prowess, at its heart, The Fellowship of the Ring maintains its raw fantasy, and works in the now as it did when first …
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Most Extraordinary Acting British high society and its decadent aristocracy go under the knife in Patrick Melrose. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the opulent production adapts a series of …
Mortal Wound “Municipal Darwinism” is what the fascist ruler of a mobile London calls his attacks on smaller cities. In Mortal Engines, where an apocalypse some 200 years ago …
Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …
Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …
Wabbit Hunting To revisit The Matrix is to revisit Precambrian internet tech. Dial up and CRT monitors, pay phones lining sidewalks and cell phones that look like bricks. Despite …
Desmond Doss deserved better Mel Gibson lays so much symbolism, violence, and hokey romance onto Hacksaw Ridge there’s little room left for the heroism of Desmond Doss. Choosing not …
Faithful Desmond Doss saved roughly 75 men in a 12 hour span during the Battle of Okinawa. He did so without a weapon, not even a sidearm. Doss rejected …