Tag: Evan

  • Underwater (2020) – Film Review – “Wading Into the New Year”

    The more time distances me from this movie, the more I think positively of it. Nothing I’d buy on DVD, but I had a good time.

    When I saw it, I wasn’t having the best of days, and, while I don’t like to attribute my given mood to my initial thoughts on a movie, I’m only human.

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  • Stuber (2019) – Film Review – “Instituting Martial Laughs”

    I have a lot to say about this movie—and I use that term in the most endearing way I know how.

    Usually, on this blog, I use “film” to describe something that truly knocked my metaphorical socks off—your Midsommar’s, your The Infiltrator’s, and so on. Otherwise, everything’s just a “movie” until proven otherwise, and this nomenclature tends to fall to the mid-summer fare that explodes into cinemas just to fill space between the more “high-art” seasons of spring and fall.

    But Stuber, as Luke Stephens (bless him) on YouTube would say, did something amazing…

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  • Stranger Things – Season 3 (2019) – “Turned Up To…Eleven” (Spoilers)

    From the Cold (War) opener, to the tantalizing ending scenes that leave us wanting for next season already, I can honestly say—while not being the best season, that laurel still belongs to the first one—that this is my favorite season of the show, to date.

    I will always listen to that theme, never skip the title drop at the beginning. It’s a classic, at this point—something everyone and their brother knows and can hum along to, even if they’re not avid viewers of the show.

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  • Midsommar (2019) – Film Review – “Sommar Lovin'”

    Alright, I need two things: A drink to calm my nerves, and a blunt to help hash this whole thing out………wow, pun fully intended.

    Kidding. I don’t smoke…

    Out of all the psychological horror flicks A24 has helped distribute to the bleary-eyed viewing public in the last few years, this has got to be my favorite among them.

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