Category: Movie Monday

  • The Dark Knight: A Superhero Masterpiece

    The Dark Knight: A Superhero Masterpiece

    It’s incredible how well this movie holds up. Even today, in a market absolutely flooded with superhero media, this still stands as one of the greatest of all time. You could still argue that it is the greatest! The Dark Knight is perfect in almost every single way. The script, the acting, the visual effects,…

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Half a Masterpiece, Half a Disaster

    This one used to be my favorite movie in the series. But upon going back to rewatch it, I made a terrible discovery: this movie is really boring! Half of it is so dull that it makes the other, much better half much harder to watch! After being blue-balled by Dumbledore, Harry meets Professor Horace…

  • Can True Star Trek Return?

    A while back, I wrote an article complaining about everything modern Star Trek gets wrong. In that article, I lamented that the Star Trek shows of old have been left behind in favor of mindless space action. All the intellect, optimism, and charm of the older shows have been completely forgotten. Today, I’m going to…

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Stepping Into Darkness

    My list of criticisms regarding this franchise are long. From the author (that’s most of them, to be honest) to the characters and certain story decisions, on and on it goes. Sometimes it’s so long that I find myself forgetting why this series became so popular in the first place. As well as why I…

  • I Finally Watched Game of Thrones (Season 3)

    The show has covered the first two books now. Let’s see how it handles A Storm of Swords! Just ignore the fact that they won’t cover how that book ends until the start of season 4. Which is… kind of awkward. But they make it work. The War of Five Kings rages on. Stannis Baratheon…