Category: Movie Reviews

Review: Yesterday (2019)

This week saw the release of Danny Boyle’s Beatles jukebox musical Yesterday. I found the trailers for this film to be absolutely charming. The Beatles are one of my favorite bands, and I’ve loved actress Lily James ever since 2015’s Cinderella, so this was a must-see for me. Let’s have a lo...

A Decade of Pixar: Cars 3 (2017)

Munir: Hello and welcome to a new edition of A Decade of Pixar. Today, we are reviewing a film that possibly nobody wanted, Cars 3. The Cars franchise has been the ugly duckling of the Pixar canon, and after the negative reviews that Cars 2 got, nobody was clamoring for a third one. Pixar, nonethele...

A Decade of Pixar: Finding Dory (2016)

Munir: Hello and welcome to another edition of A Decade of Pixar. This time, we are going to review Finding Dory, the megahit sequel to Pixar’s other megahit, Finding Nemo. Directed again by Andrew Stanton, Finding Dory takes the Cars 2 and Monsters University approach and makes a sidekick the...

REVIEW: Ivan Ortega’s The Last Jedi Re-Edit

I’ve never been one to seek out fan productions. I come from the George RR Martin school of thought which says that creating derivatives of well-loved proprieties isn’t instructive for aspiring artists and that they should spend their time creating their own IP. However, I can’t deny that ...

REVIEW: Anna (2019)

Anna is a film I’ve been greatly looking forward to since it was unveiled with its first trailer. Luc Besson is a really gifted director when he’s got the right movie, and the trailer wowed me with a glimpse at what appeared to be a bonkers action set piece. It’s also a spy film, for … ...

REVIEW: Toy Story 4 (2019)

When Toy Story 4 was announced, I was not exactly thrilled. The Toy Story movies are very close to my heart; until The Incredibles came out in 2004, the first and second Toy Story films were my favorite movies ever. I consider Toy Story 2 one of the best sequels of all time and a …

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