Oscar Isaac
Movie Review: Frankenstein
4.5 stars out of 5 Guillermo del Toro has quietly become one of my favorite filmmakers. This is his fourth consecutive movie (after The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio) that I’ve rated 4.5 stars out of 5, and Pan’s Labyrinth is a classic as well. And via interviews, I’ve learned […]
Movie Review: Dune
3.5 stars out of 5Never read Dune, never watched Dune. In middle school it seemed like a lot of dudes were reading it. Not. And even though I loved Sting and later, David Lynch, no interest in the movie. Decades went by, and finally I decided to check out the reboot — in a theater […]
Movie Review: Annihilation
4.5 stars out of 5 Last summer, my friend Julie recommended the Southern Reach trilogy of novels by Jeff VanderMeer. I put them on my Amazon shopping list but never got around to making the purchase. And the books slipped my mind until, well into watching this truly impressive film, I suddenly thought, “Hey, one […]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4 stars out of 5 I was 8 years old when the original Star Wars came out and like everybody else I knew, I was all in. Poster on my bedroom wall, action figures, comic books. I loved trying to draw R2-D2. My dad took me into San Francisco one day to meet Darth Vader, […]
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