Indiana Jones Pocket Thoughts Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981) After a brief break I’m back baby, and this time we’re talking about the all too brief, but impactful, Indiana Jones franchise. I think Raiders is an example of the perfect confluence of ideas. We have elements of classic Hollywood, particularly in the underrated love… Read More Pocket Thoughts: Indiana Jones Movies
Okay, so, I know no one asked for this, but with it being the doldrums of movie season, I’ve decided to go through every Star Wars film in order of release, and give my succinct thoughts on each movie. We’ll call them ‘pocket thoughts’. Anyway, on to the first film… Star Wars: A New Hope… Read More Pocket Thoughts: Star Wars Movies
In the first wave of the James Bond franchise (the first five films) was the cool audacious trend setter for action cinema in the 60’s. Movies like From Russia with Love and Goldfinger flaunted sex, fashion, and stylized violence into theaters and into the imagination of audiences around the world. The box office success was incredible, those first five Bonds set a new standard for big budget film making while also establishing the blueprint for many modern action movies.… Read More Bond Tropes: #24 License to Kill
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, the media behemoth it has become, has reached 18 films with no signs of slowing down. With assembly line efficiency the studio is pumping out blockbuster after blockbuster with few leaving an impression lasting more than 15 minutes outside the theater.… Read More Black Panther is Part of a New Marvel
We’re in an interesting place in time, still riding the first waves created when art and technology collide in the vast ocean of the internet. Arguably the art form benefiting most from this collision is film; anyone can now make a visual story with their phone and present it to the world on Youtube. But, conversely the film industry is experiencing turmoil. … Read More Cloverfield Paradox and The New Film Medium
You Only Live Twice, more than Thunderball, is the spiritual successor to the template setting Goldfinger. It establishes the iconic Bond villain trope with Donald Pleasence’s Blofeld, it, like Tomorrow Never Dies, takes everything that worked in a previous successful film and turns it to 11. Blofeld’s volcano lair is the exaggerated succession of Goldfinger’s home and even Dr. No’s atomic lair, Blofeld himself is inflated to almost cartoonish proportions compared to previous villains. … Read More Bond Tropes: #15 You Only Live Twice
There is a delicate charm hovering in the air when the fashionable eccentric meets Alma, the plainly dressed, and blushing, beautiful waitress in a little country inn. Reynolds is immediately smitten with her, and the massive breakfast he orders suggests he is replenishing before beginning another cycle with another muse.… Read More The Twisted Love Story of Phantom Thread
