Category: text reviews
And must I now begin to doubt, Who never doubted all those years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in shadow. It’s been years since I…
Chapter 5 of our recently published book is titled The Proof is in the Praxis (or “a little less conversation, a little more action please”). This middle chapter features over a dozen examples of examining…
It’s always Act 3 when the misunderstood, flawed-but-redeemable protagonist saves the day, right? We think we know the formula backward and forward, whether it’s Tony Stark or Indiana Jones, John McClane or John Creasy. Despite…
Review by Gareth Evans Christine Brown has an opportunity. She lives a callow and unfulfilled life, stuck with a seemingly dead-end job in a bank and a successful boyfriend whose parents don’t want her in…
We’ve always just known that Bond is Bond. James Bond. Curious then, that Skyfall is not only being hailed by some as the best Bond film ever made, but it also makes us realize we’ve been watching a…
a review from across the pond by Mr. Gareth C. Evans (TED is available for purchase on Blu-ray and DVD). It was inevitable that Seth MacFarlane would eventually break into the movies. With Family Guy episodes currently…
(No, this isn’t about alien villains from Doctor Who. It IS a great examination of the 1963 Bergman film by guest reviewer Rob Martin!) As she travels home by way of train, terminally ill Ester,…
Some of the most interesting narrative notes in the movie Wreck-It Ralph aren’t possible to discuss without racing into spoiler territory, which is why we left them out of our initial video review and focused on the…
Every year my wife and I watch Alex Proyas’ film adaptation of The Crow on October 30th, “Devil’s Night”, which also happens to be our anniversary. This year, however, the tragic supernatural revenge flick had…