Admittedly, I don’t know much about the life of Harriet Tubman. I know she was an escaped slave who became a very successful conductor on the Underground Railroad, she is supposed to get her face on the $20 bill at some point, and that’s about it. As such, though I Read more…
South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho doesn’t make what I would call crowdpleasing movies. His films tend to be thinly veiled political allegories taking aim at things like American imperialism and its relationship with South Korea (The Host) or class struggles in general (Snowpiercer). Bong Joon-ho’s work tends to point some Read more…
I think it is safe to assume that, even for the most devoted fans of the franchise, the Terminator series is something of a mess. After an all-time classic original movie and an impossibly better sequel, I suppose there was nowhere for the series to go but down. Despite being Read more…
What to make of The Current War? Produced back in 2017 with a rather impressive cast, the movie sat on a shelf for the better part of two years due to the fact its original distributor was the Weinstein Company. And that company has had some…problems. Thanks to Martin Scorsese, Read more…
When did I become a fan of horror movies? I never liked them much growing up, and yet, here we are. The long and the short of it is I don’t much like gore or jump scares. Give me a good psychological horror story, and I’m all there. Too many Read more…