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Roma
It’s that time of the year again. Lights are glowing. Music is going. Food is flowing. That’s right — it’s Oscar season! The festive holiday where we live in movie theaters because all the best films of the year appear over the course of three months. However, Netflix might be changing that. The platform that…
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Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland has a simple message: stop being so negative. Yes, there are broader critiques of everything from a disaster-obsessed media to government regulation to dystopic science-fiction but this one message never gets lost. This is due in equal parts to a series of on-the-nose speeches and eye-popping utopic imagery seen during the film’s most breathtaking…
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Mad Max: Fury Road
The word “apocalypse” gets tossed around whenever a crisis breaks out. When the banks fail, people talk about a financial apocalypse. When Ebola spreads, people fear a disease-induced apocalypse. I even know a guy who’s stockpiling weapons for the zombie apocalypse. Seriously. But what would an apocalypse really look like? Probably a lot like Mad…
