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Consider This: <i>Jurassic Park</i> a Feminist Remake of <i>Jaws</i>

Consider This: Jurassic Park a Feminist Remake of Jaws

Jul 12th, 2017 Daxson Hale
I love rewatching my favorite movies. When you sit down to view any film, you approach it with your own experience and meet it in the middle. Then, over time, you change and your viewpoints change and you can derive and add new meaning by rewatching something that, unless George Lucas was involved,...
Disabled Actors Playing Disabled Characters? What a Novel Idea!

Disabled Actors Playing Disabled Characters? What a Novel Idea!

Jul 10th, 2017 Kristen Lopez
It’s easy to criticize Hollywood decision-makers for how often they take the easy way out, whether it’s putting white Englishmen in their ancient Egyptian epics or overloading films with men and including one woman. But where they often get a litany of passes is the casting of able-bodied...
<i>Beatriz at Dinner</i>: Shifting Group and Power Dynamics

Beatriz at Dinner: Shifting Group and Power Dynamics

Jul 7th, 2017 Craig J. Clark
In a way, the most important relationship in Beatriz at Dinner is the one between the title character and someone who only appears in a handful of photographs. Played by a noticeably deglamorized Salma Hayek — for whom the role was tailor-made by director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White —...
REVIEW: <i>Spider-Man: Homecoming</i> Reboots and Upgrades the Web-Slinger

REVIEW: Spider-Man: Homecoming Reboots and Upgrades the Web-Slinger

Jul 6th, 2017 Eric D. Snider
Some superhero movies have subtitles referring to the dramatic events or villains featured therein: Apocalypse, The Age of Ultron, Civil War, The Last Stand. Then there's Spider-Man: Homecoming, which refers to a dance at Peter Parker's high school. Yes, the new incarnation of the web-slinger is a...
Why <i>Baby Driver</i> Deserves Recognition As a Great Musical

Why Baby Driver Deserves Recognition As a Great Musical

Jun 30th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
When Edgar Wright premiered his new film, Baby Driver, earlier this year at SXSW, critics and viewers were quick to compare it to La La Land. Both films centered around the budding romance between a soulful, brooding would-be musician and a peppy, dreamy coffee shop waitress; both were set to music...
The Feminism of Sofia Coppola's <i>The Beguiled</i>

The Feminism of Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled

Jun 29th, 2017 Kristen Lopez
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled, it was in the hopes of pushing his image beyond the spaghetti Western antihero or misplaced musical star (yes, we remember Paint Your Wagon). The Beguiled gave Eastwood the opportunity to play a romantic lead, and much of the...
<i>Neighbors</i>: John G. Avildsen's Uncomfortable Journey into Suburban Hell

Neighbors: John G. Avildsen's Uncomfortable Journey into Suburban Hell

Jun 28th, 2017 Jeremy Herbert
At face value, 1981’s Neighbors is The Blues Brothers Take Suburbia. The yellowed cover of my VHS copy calls it “A Comic Smash” and promises “Belushi and Aykroyd are at it again and the results are uproarious!” without a hint of attribution, making both statements about as legally binding...
REVIEW: <i>Baby Driver</i> Is the Toe-Tapping Crime Musical of the Summer

REVIEW: Baby Driver Is the Toe-Tapping Crime Musical of the Summer

Jun 27th, 2017 Eric D. Snider
Admittedly, Baby Driver employs a gimmick. Written and directed by the impossibly clever Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), the film's main character is a getaway driver who times his crew's bank robberies to be in sync with his iPod, which has an eclectic playlist of pop/rock...
<i>Innerspace</i>: Joe Dante's Badly Titled Fantastic Voyage Turns 30

Innerspace: Joe Dante's Badly Titled Fantastic Voyage Turns 30

Jun 26th, 2017 Jeremy Herbert
Joe Dante knew he’d made it in Hollywood when a grip on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) pointed out which corner of the soundstage Errol Flynn once used as his own personal bathroom. His career has always walked that same line between profound and profane. Dante got his start as one...
REVIEW: <i>The Last Knight</i> Is the Last Straw for Transformers

REVIEW: The Last Knight Is the Last Straw for Transformers

Jun 22nd, 2017 Craig J. Clark
A few weeks back, film critics and pop-culture writers were all in a tizzy over a troubling report that the new Transformers had a running time of 182 minutes. This was swiftly debunked — by no less an authority than director Michael Bay, who took to Twitter to declare it was “shorter than the...
The Beguiling Case of Art-House Remakes

The Beguiling Case of Art-House Remakes

Jun 20th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
One of the most anticipated films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. The Civil War period piece — which centers on the drama caused by the appearance of a wounded Union soldier at a secluded girls’ school deep in Confederate territory —...
Our Movie-Themed Amusement Park

Our Movie-Themed Amusement Park

Jun 19th, 2017 Derek Faraci
The time of year has come when we dutiful Americans shove our families into tightly packed cars and head off to giant, overpriced amusement parks! Crying children in the back, sleeping spouse in the passenger seat, and a strong urge to drive headlong into an eighteen wheeler if only to save...
Michael Baywatch Part IV: Gains and Losses (2013-2016)

Michael Baywatch Part IV: Gains and Losses (2013-2016)

Jun 19th, 2017 Craig J. Clark
As the world teeters on the brink of Transformers: The Last Knight, Craig J. Clark has finally reached the end of the road that led Michael Bay — and the rest of us — here. Craig called the tune. It’s time to pay the piper. Part IV: Gains and Losses (2013-2016) After directing three...
REVIEW: <i>Cars 3</i> Is the Talky Existential Drama Kids Crave!

REVIEW: Cars 3 Is the Talky Existential Drama Kids Crave!

Jun 15th, 2017 Eric D. Snider
Pixar's first bad movie, Cars 2, erred in making Mater the tow truck the main character and in emphasizing a tired espionage caper over jokes. Pixar's second bad movie, Cars 3, fixes those mistakes and replaces them with different ones. This time, the accursed Mater is hardly around at all (and...
13 Actors Who Did Better as Screenwriters

13 Actors Who Did Better as Screenwriters

Jun 14th, 2017 Rob Hunter
This week marks the 30th anniversary of John McTiernan’s action/sci-fi blockbuster Predator. It was the first credited movie role for the actor who plays the dirty-joke-obsessed Hawkins, but his excitement about that may have been overshadowed by something else. His name is Shane Black, you see,...
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