Argylle offers audiences the first fun film of 2024 as filmmaker Matthew Vaughn does it again with a new spy thriller. I went into the film knowing absolutely nothing. Lo and behold, it had my attention from start to finish. By this point, Vaughn knows the important ingredients of a spy thriller. What I didn’t expect was–well, if I told you, you get the idea. Maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t watch the trailer…
"Argylle: Matthew Vaughn Does It Again"Tag: Sofia Boutella
A film that mixes different genres, Hotel Artemis is a film that depicts a bleak future in Los Angeles. While 2028 doesn’t seem so long into the future, it appears to be very bleak for Los Angeles for a few days in June. Thanks to the Clearwater Corporation shutting off water to the general public, the city is rioting in full force. It’s been a full three days of rioting and the police are just…
"Hotel Artemis: Check Out Any Time You Want"
Fahrenheit 451 depicts a bleak future in which one can only hope will never come to fruition. It also feels as if it’s very much made for 2017. This is only the second-ever feature-length adaptation of the classic novel written by Ray Bradbury. In his novel, Bradbury presented a future where firemen start fires by burning books rather fighting fires. Moreover, nobody seems to give a regard for either facts or history. As for the…
"Fahrenheit 451: A Trump Era Adaptation"
Atomic Blonde is a Cold War version of James Bond if Agent 007 were a kick-ass female. Based on the Oni Press graphic novel series, The Coldest City, David Leitch directs from a screenplay written by Kurt Johnstad. The action-thriller stars Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella and Toby Jones. MI6 Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is sent to Berlin at the end of the Cold War in 1989 to…
"Atomic Blonde: What if James Bond were a Kick-Ass Female?"