Oscar Isaac
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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