Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Tarzan (1999)
“No matter where I go, you will always be my mother.” Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan novels may be among the most frequently adapted literary works of all time. Games, comics, movies and TV shows have been spun off from the books since almost the very beginning. Disney’s Tarzan is one of many ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Trust – Season 1, Episode 4 “That’s All Folks”
*Spoilers* This week on Trust, Primo takes a photo of Paul next to the dead body of Berto to prove he really has the Getty heir. He then delivers Paul to his uncle and the family accountant, but all three men have different ideas about how to handle the ransom. Meanwhile, Paul Sr. and main … ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Isle of Dogs (2018)
Wes Anderson’s new film Isle of Dogs tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy searching for his dog. The movie is set twenty years in the future, when Japan has become overrun with dogs and dog-specific diseases. Mayor Kobayashi sends all dogs in the country to Trash Island, which is exactly w...
Read MoreREVIEW: Lost in Space – Season 1, Episode 1 “Impact” (2018)
“There is a rule written in stone and it is never broken: the Robinsons stick together. “ Lost in Space was originally a 1965 action-comedy series inspired by the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson. It inspired a movie in 1998 and now Netflix has rebooted the series again. *Spoilers* In the pi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Mulan (1998)
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” If The Hunchback and Notre Dame was too dark for Disney’s audience and Hercules was too silly, I think it fair to say that they found a happy medium with Mulan. The film re-tells an ancient Chinese legend about a woma...
Read MoreREVIEW: Trust Season 1, Episode 3
*Spoilers* This week’s episode of Trust, “La Dulce Vita,” opens with Paul Getty III and his friends partying and doing drugs. In the streets people are rioting and all appears to be chaos. Meanwhile, a man named Primo is burgling the home of an elderly couple; at first he’s just goi...
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