Category: Movie Monday

There are few creators as bizarre as Hideo Kojima. He has made a ton of classic games, including the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and lots of underappreciated gems like Snatcher (look it up, it’s great). And just recently, he’s released the much anticipated and… divisively received Death Stranding! Which I don’t want to talk about. I like…

Out of all the various villains in movies, books, and video games, Nazis are among the most common. Hopefully, I shouldn’t have to explain why. They are history’s ultimate case of ‘yeah, fuck those guys’. In terms of villains for a morally black-and-white story, Nazis are the ultimate easy pick. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple.…

With movies nowadays, everyone always seems to want more. More action. More visual effects. More stuff in the frame. More colors. What they don’t seem to understand is that sometimes less can be a whole lot more than more. As I said last week, I have a huge soft spot for classic films. There are a lot of…

Watching classic movies is always a nice experience. To me, old cinema has a special charm to it that newer films just can’t replicate. There are a lot of reasons why; older visual quality, practical effects over CGI, fantastic performers who are either no longer with us or have stopped caring about acting, the list…

Huh. I have no idea where this one came from. It just sort of showed up on my Netflix cue. Oh well. May as well see how cringy this is! That was my thought process going into this documentary. I had expected it to be one of those movies made by a team that had…