Every Snake Sheds Their Skin: “White Snake” and Regressive Representations of Heroines
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Despite the film’s potential, White Snake is ultimately a bit too predictable, a bit too safe, and perhaps a bit too regressive.
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t settle for being a political gesture in Hollywood, taking risks rarely seen in romantic comedies.
Read MoreThe Iron Giant
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The Iron Giant (1999) is a film that you appreciate more as you grow older…
Read MorePacific Rim
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In Pacific Rim (2013), the Kaiju arise from The Breach, a crevice in the Pacific Ocean, and lay waste to coastal cities like San Francisco and Tokyo. Nobody knows who they are or where they came from or what they want (and neither does the audience by time the credits roll), but everyone realizes that this isn’t pest control—this is extermination…
Read MoreInterstellar
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Nolan certainly pays homage to space travel productions before him like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but the film explores both the beauty and peril of outer space with an artistry that I have not witnessed before…
Read MoreExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) is about a family following the tragic aftermath of 9/11, but it’s a task that the film was simply not up to…
Read MoreLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
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Fans of the books will cringe at some of the bigger discrepancies—Kludd’s capture, the magical energy contained in “flecks”, Digger’s personality in general—while everyone else will wonder why all the events seem to take less than a week’s time. Ga’Hoole jumps from scene to scene with more energy than a caffeinated owl…
Read MoreThe Neverending Story
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The most frustrating part about watching The Neverending Story is how tantalizingly close it is to being a great film…
Read MoreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes a step back in time and across the pond to New York City in 1926. Newt Scamander, an avid Magizoologist, is in the midst of compiling a book collection about magical creatures…
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