To me there are two kinds of movies. The first type are movies that have almost no other purpose than to keep you entertained for somewhere between 90 and 140 minutes. The second type is one where the filmmaker(s) tries to reach their audience with a message and/or engage them on a higher level. This type of film is not just telling a story, it is presenting an argument, reimagining a situation. Both types of film have their merits, and both can be made poorly. Unlike a book, there are, in fact, films that are totally worthless. The goal of the movie reviews you’ll find in this blog is simple: I hope to be critical of each movie – appropriate to its type – and to provide the reader with some of my insights as to where the movie itself fits in the canon of film. I’ll try never to spoil plots unless I feel it’s absolutely necessary to the review, and I will do my best to provide reviews of a variety of movie types (I’m overly partial to Horror and War movies, myself). So if you find things here that you like, chime in. If you don’t, it’s still a (relatively) free country; I’m sure you can find entertainment elsewhere.
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