My Review and Explanation of the Movie Circle - wherein I exposit on the intricacies and delicacies of this delicious movie.
Movie Midnight Special Explained and Reviewed - wherein we discuss one of the best movie of the year and walk through a theory or two about what it's about.
Sometimes the magic of a movie is that it so thoroughly immerses the viewer into a new world and new...
Synchronicity Time Travel Movie Reviewed and Explained - wherein we fall in love with another micro-budget movie that explores love and treachery in loop after loop of time.
Movie Coherence Explained and Interview With Director James Ward Byrkit. Coherence is up there with Primer as to of the...
Ex Machina Explained and Reviewed - wherein I blow your mind w/ a fantastic movie for your evening enjoyment. We have Robots. We have Dancing. We have love!
Time Lapse is basically a very simple conceit. It's a conceit wherein they stumble upon a machine that takes photos into the future. And just as expected, all hell breaks loose.
Safety Not Guaranteed And My New Bromance I have long loved independent theater. (Theatre?) What have you. Low budget, clever...
A Complete Clouds of Sils Maria Explanation and Walkthrough. Quite possibly one of the greatest mindjob flicks I've watched in the past 10 years. What is happening here? Let's talk about it.
Oh I know there are weaknesses in this theory. But when you point them out, my answer is invariably going to be, explain to me your theory, and how it has fewer gaping holes in it than mine? Hahah. No, seriously, I've been struggling with this damn movie since I first walked out of the theater. Normally I crank a movie review the night after I see it. But this one wasn't like that at all. I struggled and struggled and struggled with it until I decided my first thought in the movie theater was all that was left.
When I first watched TimeCrimes, I was struggling to understand if the TimeCrimes time travel system was deterministic or if time could actually change as the movie moved forward. A lot of this confusion centered around the young woman... who she was, how many times did she die? Did she die at all? Was Hector's wife killed and then saved? Was she killed at all? Etc. I also wasn't sure how the time machine worked. But seeing as though this was the first time that a "vertibrate had entered" the machine, they didn't understand it either.
The One I Love Reviewed and Explained - an explanation and investigation into the movie The One I Love, because it totally needs to be investigated!
In Praise of Coherence or Decoherence - One of the best indie mindjob movies I've ever reviewed. Hands down.
The Signal Movie Explained
The Edge of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat) Time Travel and Ending Explained - the concept is simple, but in practice it is truly complex. The Edge of Tomorrow is a time travel nightmare of nests and perpetual loops that cause one's head to explode if you think about it too long. Join us as we untangle the Tom Cruise's latest blockbuster movie and we explain the definitive unraveling of this fantastic movie.