T: After a random watching of Adaptation on HBO the other evening, Red Vines and I delved into the world of its creator, Charlie Kaufman. I, myself, am quite familiar with Kaufman as he is the mastermind behind my favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which – by the way – if you have…
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The Disaster Artist
T: Any true fan of cult-movies surely has seen – or a least heard of – Tommy Wiseau’s infamously bad film, The Room, starring Greg Sistero and Tommy Wiseau himself. It is infamous in the sense that it is one of those strange films that you know, with every fiber of your being, is terribly…
Mother!
T: I had been wanting to watch this movie ever since the eery and cryptic trailers had come out during late summer. Its limited clues and haunting imagery had me instantly hooked. Plus, being an Aronofsky fan and Jennifer Lawrence enthusiast, I was excited to see this (former) real-life couple team up in Aranofsky’s latest psychological…
Okja
T: I had initially heard about this film while reading an article about all the upcoming summer Netflix releases and what had initially caught my attention was the divisive opinions about how this film should have been released. Even now, having watched the film, I find myself delving into the differing opinions – and ultimately…
Baby Driver
T: Gosh, where do I begin? First and foremost, RV and I (on a whim) decided to go see this movie. Neither of us knew anything about it, and my own limited understanding of the film centered primarily on the rave reviews that kept popping up in my Twitter feed. We hadn’t seen the trailer…
Moana
RV: Disney is on a hot streak right now, and after watching their latest masterpiece, it’s not that hard to see why. Disney currently has their 93-year-old fingers on the pulse of progressive America. Gone are the days of those painful racial stereotypes or just random whitewashing. Moana is perhaps my favorite princess movie of all time….
La La Land
T: Are you prepared for a bunch of mushy-gushy, fan-girl raves about a movie that you probably haven’t watched yet? If not, you should probably stop reading right about now… Wait, you’re still here?! Awesome! Okay, are you ready to hear my heart soar for this amazing movie??? This movie is seriously the best. thing….
Alice Through The Looking Glass
RV: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not considered classics stories because of the Mad Hatter or Johnny Depp or some big special effect dramatic plot for that matter. Much like all other classic satires (See: Gulliver’s Travels, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Candid, etc.) or classic children stories (See: Phantom Tollbooth, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,…
Zootopia
RV: Zootopia might just be the ballsiest movie that Disney has ever made, yet no one will actually complain about it even though it features a pretty poignant criticism of a huge portion of the population (See Wall-E and fat people for another example). Did you know that bunnies can’t be police officers because they…
Porco Rosso
RV: Hayao Miyazaki is one of the greatest directors of all time. That’s a fact that no movie buff can deny, and if you try, I’ll just show you clip after clip of Disney/Pixar’s Chief John Lasseter going on endlessly about how influential Miyazaki was on his own work at Pixar, which is huge knowing…
Spectre
RV: I like James Bond. I’m not a huge fan. I don’t normally pay to go see it. I’m more of a renter or catch it on FX or something. However, Ms. Twizzler loves her some Daniel Craig, which this movie did not disappoint in that category with its borderline tentacle porn opening, so I…
Shaun the Sheep Movie
RV: You don’t have to have a bunch of fart and queer jokes to make claymation that appeals to adults (See Hell and Back for an example of how not to make a claymation). You just need charm and wit, which Aardman films always have in abundance. Case in point, this movie has little to…
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