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Counterpoint: “Kingdom of Heaven” Director’s Cut Is Not the ‘Holy Holy’ Film Nerds Think

A beautiful but imperfect film that is good not great. It seems these days with film criticism, that every movie either has to be great or terrible. In the fifteen years since Kingdom of Heaven was released, film criticism has grown its own sub-economy. A Collider article recently shared to Reddit went viral about Kingdom…

Revenge of the Sixth: A Defense of the Battle of the Heroes

Preamble: Any skillfully made film with enough craft and popularity can be interpreted in a variety of ways, so it stands the highest grossing film of 2005, which is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary today gets its ride. We’re talking identity politics, social and political commentary, unwanted scientific takes, needless and thin arguable subtext, and general…

With Red Red Dead Redemption II Rockstar is due for a Reckoning

It took me a year and a half and a stay at home order from a pandemic to do it, but my Red Dead Redemption II campaign is finally complete. It is a long game to say the least. It felt even longer because story wise the game is overburdened and unfocused. Setting wise it…

Why Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is My favourite

I often joke to people that Revenge of the Sith is the best Star War, because it has the most stars and contains the most wars. Episode III is the one film I liked as a child that I’ve kept my nostalgia goggles on for, evolving and informing my own taste as I grow up….

‘Extraction’ is here for Netflix to Extract you from the real world for 116 Minutes

Newton Thomas Sigel is in my opinion a very talented cinematographer. He lent a unique look and creative eye to the otherwise by the numbers Bohemian Rhapsody, and staged some memorable images like the crane down newspaper shot in Superman Returns or Jean Grey parting the waters in X2: X-Men United. Yet he is not…

First Rate Script, Career Best Hugh Jackman Highlight Corey Finley’s ‘Bad Education’

‘Bad Education’ Review by William Hume Hugh Jackman is a good actor, but just how great is he? I often wonder as I marked his previous Best Performance in Prisoners seven years ago. That performance was all unbridled rage but this here is the complete opposite; subtle and internal. Hugh plays a man of many…

Is Amazon Prime’s ZeroZeroZero a Front for a Money Laundering Scheme?

Unlike Ozark, there is no such humor found in ZeroZeroZero. Aside from a brief respite in Episode 7; a high point filled with unexpected romance and peak relaxation performances, director and creator Stefano Sollima (Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado) hardly concerns himself or his two co-directors with good humour or much laughter. It’s an…

Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” Is Here to Distract You From Your Fixation on the Coronavirus

It’s unbelievable, fascinating, suspect, and ripe for immediate consumption in the face of a pandemic and raises questions about public taste and convictions that yet have an answer. By: William Hume It is easy to see what makes Netflix’s new documentary series so compelling: during this pandemic we are currently suffering, the show offers an…

In Its Third Season, Ozark Threatens to Become a Good Show

Ozark, a show that started off as a poor man’s Breaking Bad with worse acting and a lot worse writing, has a lot of angles and plot pivots to play in Season Three. None get more mileage than the modern marital fears of Boomers/ Gen X. I include the label because I was surprised how many…

For Its Third Game, the Russian First Person Shooter ‘Metro Series’ Takes a Bold Uneven ‘Exodus’ Into a Semi-Open World

Developer: 4A Games Publisher: Deep Silver Release Date: February 15th, 2019 Availability: Now Available on Steam and For Free with Xbox Game Pass 10 years have passed between the release of the original Metro 2033 and my completion of Metro Exodus. The series has never been a landmark, and it’s baseline visuals (except on PC)…

Westworld Should Accept Its Stupidity

“After Season 2, I too wish Westworld was a completely different show.” – Twitter Season One of Westworld was intriguing, fun, and mysterious. Going in with only a scant blueprint of the original 70’s Michael Crichton movie on which it was based, it had several advantages. Anthony Hopkins’ great performance, mixed with a great character…

Why is HBO’s ‘The Outsider’ such a big hit?

Murder mystery is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s the one sustainable resource on television. Netflix is filled with an endless assortment of documentaries and shows on it, and British television has made a cottage industry out of it. With that in mind, it should be no shock that the HBO adaptation of the recent…