Angel Has Fallen
Ric Roman Waugh’s Angel Has Fallen, third in its trilogy – which will certainly one day rise to a tetralogy, pentalogy, and so on – doesn’t require its viewer to have seen the first two in the series. Starring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, and Nick Nolte, it follows the Secret Service Agent Mike Banning after he is accused of the attempted assassination via drone stike of the presiden...[Read More]
Doctor Sleep
Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep follows Danny Torrance in his middle age, decades after his horrific experience at the Overlook Hotel with his brave mother Wendy and his father Jack, who is rapidly losing his mind. Nearly 40 years later, Danny is an ex-alcoholic noticing his psychic connections to a young girl named Abra and the looming threat of an immortal roaming cult, the True Knot, that feast of...[Read More]
The Haunting of Hill House
What I like about Mike Flanagan is the delicate line he balances. Something that’s irritated me as a horror fanatic in the past few years has been the trend of horror fans calling certain movies or shows “elevated” horror. Movies that fall under this category of “elevated” horror are Ari Aster’s films Hereditary and Midsommar, and arguably the movie that started this trend is Robert Eggers’ The V...[Read More]
Yesterday
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect refers to the phenomenon of a tiny change in a system, typically time, having a significant change elsewhere. In the case of Danny Boyle’s Yesterday, a charming young musician named Jack is hit by a bus and is somehow transported into an alternate dimension. In this dimension, the only major difference is that the legendary band The Beatles never came to exist...[Read More]
Mean Girls
It’s (almost) October 3rd. When I realized 2019 marks fifteen years since the release of Mean Girls in 2004, my adolescence flashed before my eyes. 15 years since Cady Heron moved to the United States, thrown into the wild high school cliques of America that she compares to the plains of Africa, which she has just spent her entire life in. A dark comedy about a girl who feels like she’s better tha...[Read More]
IT Chapter Two
IT Chapter Two might be the strangest film I’ve ever seen in wide-release. Andy Muschietti’s followup to his 2017 IT adaptation clocks in at 2 hours and 50 minutes of runtime, which keeps the audience entertained for every second of it. It had intriguing moments of horror and effects that improved upon the first film’s. The makeup artists decided to go for extensive makeup slightly enhanced by CGI...[Read More]
Lego DC Batman: Family Matters
In Lego DC Batman: Family Matters, Batman has grown tired of balancing the crime-fighting life of Batman with the billionaire business celebrity of Bruce Wayne. On a whim, after being introduced to the Brother Eye AI security system pitched to him in a meeting, Bruce decides to sell his company, allowing it to fall right in the hands of Harvey Dent, who felt scorned by Bruce’s success and careless...[Read More]