Movie Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Movie Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, or Massive Talent as the advertisements now call it, and what I will be calling it throughout this review because The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an obnoxiously long title, is a movie that wants to be a love letter to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winning actor was at one time of the biggest movie stars in the world, starring in blockbuster box office hits and…

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Movie Review: The Northman

Movie Review: The Northman

  The Northman is director Robert Egger’s version of Hamlet. The classic Shakesperian tale of a son getting revenge on his uncle who killed his father years earlier. We’ve seen this story numerous times, whether it was a direct adaptation of the Shakespeare play or with animated lions. But with Eggers behind the camera, The Northman is a thrilling experience and solidifies Eggers as one of the premier visual artists working today. The Northman starts…

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Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once

    As of writing this review, it has been over a week since I saw Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s, a.k.a the Daniels, latest film Everything Everywhere All At Once. It has taken me a while to write this review because it is hard to put in the words what the Daniels have created. Everything Everywhere All At Once is one of the most original and awe-inspiring movies I’ve seen in years. It is…

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Movie Review: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Movie Review: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

  Richard Linklater has been making movies for over thirty years now and throughout his career, his movies have ranged in budget, genre, tone, and style, making remakes of 70s comedies to making a movie whose production took twelve years to complete. Despite working in different genres of varying budgets and filming lengths, Linklater has often made movies that look at male fantasies, specific times, and places in people’s lives and coming of age films…

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2022 Oscars: The Good, The Bad, The Worse, and The Slap

2022 Oscars: The Good, The Bad, The Worse, and The Slap

The 2022 Academy Awards took place last night and to put it bluntly, it was an absolute shit-show. From cutting categories and terribly editing them into the show, the flat and boring musical numbers, the useless hosts, and Will Smith, this was one of the most chaotic and messy Oscars I have ever seen. But, despite how bad the show was overall, there were still some nice moments throughout the show. Here is my recap…

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2022 Oscars Predictions: Who Will Win/Who Should Win

2022 Oscars Predictions: Who Will Win/Who Should Win

The 2022 Oscars are here and despite recent controversies over presenters and cutting a few categories from the show, I always get excited for Oscar night. There are quite a few categories that seem locked up, but there is still a number of that categories are still up in the air, including Best Actress and Best Picture. And, as always, there are always surprises, which I’m hoping for. Here are my final 2022 Oscars predictions….

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2022 Oscars Best Picture Nominees Ranked

2022 Oscars Best Picture Nominees Ranked

The Oscars are here! Following a bizarre and chaotic 2020 Oscar season, the 2021 one felt more of the usual. It was an exhausting year and I cannot wait for the 2021 movie year to be officially over, but there were a lot of good movies in 2021, so it wasn’t all bad. Overall, the 2022 Oscar Best Picture nominees are very good. Though only two of the nominees made my personal top ten movies…

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SXSW 2022 Movie Review: The Prank

SXSW 2022 Movie Review: The Prank

    Legendary Oscar-winner Rita Moreno gives a performance unlike anything we’ve ever seen from her before in The Prank, director Maureen Bharoocha’s fun and twisted high school comedy thriller. Ben (Connor Kalopsis) is an over-achiever. Desperate to get into the college his late-father would have wanted him to go to, he tries to do everything to perfection. His best friend Tanner (Ramona Young) is the opposite and barely tries at all. Despite their opposite…

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SXSW 2022 Movie Review: I Love My Dad

SXSW 2022 Movie Review: I Love My Dad

    Chuck (Patton Oswalt) isn’t winning any “Father of the Year” trophies any time soon. When we first meet him, he is on a walk with his young son Franklin. On this walk, Chuck and Franklin find an adorable puppy and Chuck asks Franklin if he wants to keep it, to which Franklin happily replies yes. A few seconds later, we see a sign for a lost dog, with a picture of the puppy…

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2022 SXSW Film Festival: Movies To Be Excited For

2022 SXSW Film Festival: Movies To Be Excited For

The 2022 SXSW Film Festival officially kicks off this week and it should be a very fun and exciting festival. This will be my second year covering the Austin-based film festival and this year looks just as strong as last year, if not stronger. This year’s SXSW Film Festival is both in-person and virtual and I am incredibly excited to be attending in person. There are a lot of great movies playing at this year’s…

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