At least the narrator is charismatic.
A propaganda fluff piece where the United States pats itself on the back for driving global nuclear proliferation. Drawn out and boastful and without a hint of self-awareness of how it would eventually be perceived.
Brilliant. Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's script is the most Star Trek that Star Trek has felt in nearly twenty years and the cast is clearly having the time of their life with it. Idris Elba is a top-three theatrical Star Trek villain and the supporting cast gets more to do than they have in both of the previous Kelvin films combined. Add in the fact this is the best any of the new films have looked and Beyond surpasses all expectations.
RANKINGS: 2019
There is a very good film hiding somewhere in Selah and the Spades but this isn’t it.
The first thing that becomes apparent when watching this film is how desperately it wants to be a woke Mean Girls. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Very few comedies have understood high school quite as well as the 2004 classic but the primarily straight white focus makes it not quite as timeless as it could be. Woke Mean Girls…
RANKINGS: 2018 | Mission: Impossible
The Mission: Impossible franchise consists largely of a series of increasingly complex studio-funded suicide attempts by Tom Cruise and I'll be damned if it doesn't make for one of the most memorable action franchises in history. With the exception of the lackluster second entry, nearly every single one has been better than the last. Fallout is no exception and is very likely to go down in history as one of the greatest action films of…
