Review: Bullet Train: Morons on the Orient Express
Morons on the Orient Express.
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The latest Predator sequel shakes off the weight of previous movies to tell its own story.
Review: You Were Never Really Here Makes Action Movie Misogyny Explicit
The plot description for You Were Never Really Here suggests a familiar type or action movie, one starring Charles Bronson or maybe Liam Neeson: working as a hired gun who rescues exploited young girls and punishes their kidnappers, ex-soldier/FBI agent Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) gets entangled in a conspiracy involving powerful politicians. Reading that synopsis, audiences …
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Review: Ready Player One
In The Society of the Spectacle, French theorist Guy Debord argues that mass culture MASTER CHIEF JUST SHOT FREDDY KRUEGER! which Jean Baudrillard further develops, most famously in Similarity and THAT’S THE BACK TO THE FUTURE THEME! But the most damning indictment of mass entertainment THE IRON GIANT! Adorno’s essay in A RUBIK’S CUBE! AN …