There are games I enjoy – or even used to enjoy – that I want to write about but don’t have enough to say for full reviews, so I’m putting them into another “Five Video Games I’ve Played the Most” list. This time, the list is based not only on how many hours I put … More Five More Video Games I’ve Played the Most
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year – or at least its first entry, The Fellowship of the Ring, is. I wasn’t old enough from 2001 to 2003 to see the trilogy in theaters, but I grew up from there watching … More The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
It’s no secret that the much-anticipated Spider-Man: No Way Home will bring all three live-action Spider-Man continuities together as a collision between alternate universes. However, for as much as I’m looking forward to such a crossover, I don’t anticipate it to be the instant classic as the first time a Spider-Man movie revolved around the … More Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Admittedly, I didn’t go into Metroid Dread as a Metroid enthusiast. I know bits of lore and certain plot points from across the games, but when I played through 1994’s Super Metroid on the SNES Classic, I more appreciated it for how it influenced other metroidvanias (non-linear side-scrollers that take inspiration from Metroid and later … More Metroid Dread (2021)
Monster horror is my kind of horror; it doesn’t leave me paranoid like supernatural horror (more specifically, demonic horror) does, even when the monsters have supersonic hearing and armor-like skin that force the people they feast on to live their lives trying to make as little noise as possible. That said, I avoided 2018’s A … More A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
The title of Speed is no false advertisement. I call movies like Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Aquaman wild rides, but no other movie I’ve seen can be called a wild ride as literally as Speed can, where a passenger-filled bus that’s being held for ransom has to keep moving above fifty miles-per-hour or else … More Speed (1994)
Few cinematic pulp adventures that have come in the wake of the genre-defining Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels are widely regarded as classics in their own rights; 1999’s The Mummy is one of them. The 1932 Universal Monster classic on which it’s based, about the Egyptian mummy Imhotep accidentally being brought back … More The Mummy (1999)
Although it may not have the character depth and relatively logical plotting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Monsterverse is the cinematic universe that was made for me. Watching giant CGI monsters, whose original rubber suit incarnations I’ve known since my childhood, duking it out in CGI cities makes me feel like a kid again … More Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
I’m not a diehard Disney fan, so I don’t know what I’d call my absolute favorite Disney movie (The Lion King, Aladdin, and Tangled are definite contenders for that place), but The Hunchback of Notre Dame – an achievement that’s both baffling and brilliant – is the one whose existence fascinates me the most. Cinematically, … More The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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