Tag: ultrahd

Hole in the Desert The final moments of Casino show old Vegas being torn down. Implosions send once grand buildings to rubble. Sam Rothenstein (Robert De Niro) opines about …

Life Isn’t Like Your Fairy Tales At a lavish banquet, the fascist sociopath Captain Vidal verbally denigrates the rebels. Those at the table agree. Among them, a Catholic priest, …

Seeing Daylight In 2007, a documentary titled Who Killed the Electric Car? told the story of how various entities combined to keep fuel-based vehicles the standard. A few years …

A Kentucky Harvester Ms. Deagle is awful. She threatens to kill a family dog, ignores the cries of starving children, cuts in lines, and hates Christmas carolers. Deagle (Polly …

Fauxbots While The World’s End lacks Shaun of the Dead’s comedic cleverness, it instead chooses a more somber, richer topic to finish the Cornetto trilogy. In that, The World’s …

Phoenix Falling Partway through the arduous Dark Phoenix, a TV newscast mentions the possibility for mutant internment camps, suggesting the X-Men’s future unless they stop the conflicted Jean Gray. …

Desert Wonder Power is meaningless without truth. That’s what ultimately dooms Jafar in Aladdin, and also saving the title hero from a life without love. Jafar’s goal is to …

A Funny Sort of Day When Simon Pegg and Nick Frost finally grasp Shaun of the Dead’s zombie outbreak, Frost runs in the house and grabs a box of …

Plenty of Vacancy The world of Hotel Artemis is a capitalist hell hole. On this night, Los Angeles’ population riots on the street against the company who privatized the …

Rock Bottom By the time Dwayne Johnson is fighting with a samurai sword, Skyscraper already destroyed its credibility. What’s a sword against gun-happy terrorists when Johnson already climbed the …

Critical Aversion Day of the Soldado concerns itself with border crossings, human trafficking, and for brief moment, Muslim terrorists who detonate suicide vests inside of an American grocery store. …

Brittle Satire Danny McBride is meant to play an idiot in Arizona. Set at the beginning of the recession, McBride is turned into an American consumer satire, an SUV-driving, …