Broken Promises: An “Alien: Covenant” Review
There’s a lot of beautiful work here, put together by top-notch artists, and yet Alien: Covenant plays out like one long odd choice. The talent makes it work thankfully, but it still feels unnecessary.
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H.G. Well’s “The Time Machine” is Forever, Even at the End of Time
You are presented with the full edition of Wells’ The Time Machine. The tale now reads like a genteel odyssey, one man’s wanderings through time for no other reason than to see what’s there. The book’s monsters don’t scare you anymore — they seem almost quaint, like desperate little nocturnal apes — but something else does. Time continues to pass.
The Why of ‘The Rover’: A Review
By: Daniel Reynolds There are generally two types of post-apocalypse movies: the ones where some context is given for humanity’s predicament (nuclear bomb, disease, zombies, what have you) and the […]
The Villain Syndrome: Why Movies Need More Hans Gruber
By: Daniel Reynolds What we talk about when we talk about Die Hard is usually the iconic performance by Bruce Willis as supercop hero John McClane, and, really, that’s fair. […]
The Broken Superhero: Iron Man 3 Reviewed
By: Daniel Reynolds It is remarkable to think that somehow Iron Man has become the de facto superhero representative of this young millennium. Oh sure, the Batman movies have been […]
