Brian Cox
The Electric State feels like it was stitched together with ChatGPT, containing none of the humanity it strives to portray.
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I can almost hear the song “Pac-Man Fever” as I write this: “I got Pac-Man Fever… it’s drivin’ me crazy!” (And if you want to hear it, too, click here.) This 1982 song by Buckner & Garcia and a tune about “Space Invaders” my eldest sister and her friend wrote and recorded on a cheap […]
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A good sequel should expand upon the original, going places where the original didn’t go and further exploring its characters. Lazy sequels seem to merely take everything good about the original, repackage it with new locales and new actors, and hope to hell that some of us won’t notice that it’s same movie all over […]
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(This review was originally published on February 17, 2012 at Reel Film News) ‘A place calling itself Rome’ looks a lot more like war-torn Serbia in “Coriolanus”, Ralph Fiennes’ version of the politically charged Shakespeare tragedy. Not as much an update of the play as an application of the script to a more relatable era […]
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