As an enjoyer of the Hunger Games series much like everyone else, I was actually initially very confused and not super interested in the idea of a President Snow origin story. I didn’t feel a need to read the book until about 2 months ago when we began to close in on this film’s release. And to my surprise, I loved it. The complex relationships that Snow has with others, the meditations on human nature and the like, it all…
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Wish 2023
In the current conversation regarding the animation industry, no one is quite as divisive as Disney Animation Studios. Once the pioneers of the genre, many (myself included) see them as falling behind compared to rival studios like Sony, Dreamworks, and even their fellow studio Pixar. While they’ve had a few genuine successes in the past few years enjoyed by both critics and audiences (hello, Encanto!), slip-ups like Strange World and Ralph Breaks the Internet have tarnished their reputation, not to…
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Minority Report 2002
An extremely stylish meditation on free will and ultra-surveillance. Spielberg unleashed a lot of crazy and cool futuristic ideas and Cruise gets to show a lot of range between the action and intense emotional scenes. The entire film oozes style, though the look of it took a lot of getting used to with the muted color grading, but it fit the atmosphere very well. Sometimes the CGI-heavy moments could be a bit dodgy, but it was also 2002 and the…
