by aditya | Apr 20, 2019 | Archive
After discussing Little, we now discuss one of the best movies of the 1980s and one of the most heartwarming comedies of all time. Big came out around the same time as three films which showed adults switching bodies with children in their families but all of those...
by aditya | Apr 16, 2019 | Archive
Well let’s complete this project by talking about the original. I’ll work backwards. In order to get this movie you take the remake, which already underwhelmed me, and you:-remove the change in the pivotal plot point the remake made to successfully...
by aditya | Apr 3, 2019 | Archive
It’s such a joy discussing this movie. Disney movies from the Golden Age are something else, conveying an otherworldly sense of magic, starting from the first frame that would often show a real storybook opening up. Although I love many of the films from Uncle...
by aditya | Mar 31, 2019 | Archive
Right after watching the Twilight Zone panel to which I just alluded, I stuck around for a panel about the direction of horror. One of the panelists, Dr. Rebekah McKentry, talked about how the horror genre has, throughout history, alternated through three phases over...
by aditya | Mar 20, 2019 | Archive
Typically watching a new film has made me choose an older movie to write about in an accompanying review. In this case I actually went backwards. I watched Groundhog Day when a theater near me that has a special screening of a classic every Thursday night chose...
by aditya | Mar 20, 2019 | Archive
I’m so glad I was presented with an excuse to write more about this film! People have been talking about ‘Groundhog Day Loops” or using similar phrases for so much of my life that it’s easy to forget there was a time the “reliving the same day over and over” trope...
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