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Movie Review: 47 Meters Down
Movies set in one location can be tricky. Films like Phone Booth (2002), Buried (2010), and arguably the best of the bunch, Locke (2013), know how to create suspense and tension by changing the stakes and situation without multiple locations. They gave the protagonists little tasks throughout the film that brought them one step closer to getting out of their situation. It can make for simplistic, ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Pacific Rim
Ever since I was a kid, I have loved Japanese monster films. They played a big role in developing my love of cinema, and I consider the original Godzilla (1954) one of the finest examples of allegorical science-fiction in film history. And for almost a decade now, I’ve loved the films of Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker who previously brought us Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), The Devi...[Read More]