Tag: review
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Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Review
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS EPISODE IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER BELOW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I have a strange relationship with the Star Wars franchise. I wasn’t alive during the original trilogy, I was very young during the prequel trilogy, and I was very much getting into film during the sequel trilogy. Despite that,…
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Pink Wall (2019): Review
*Warning for mild spoilers, but nothing too big* Sometimes the simplest of premises can create the most impactful movies. Pink Wall is very simple: a series of sequences which depict moments in a relationship across several years, highlighting the good, the bad, and the in between. Tom Cullen’s directorial debut focuses on Leon and Jenna,…
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Rocketman (2019): A Brief Review
Slight spoilers within – nothing too heavy but I recommend watching the movie before reading this anyway. So a few days ago I managed to finally catch up with a few movies, one of them being Rocketman. Being completely honest, I didn’t have high hopes for this one until the first reviews came out. I…
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Booksmart (2019) dir. Olivia Wilde – Review
Booksmart is a 2019 coming-of-age comedy movie directed by Olivia Wilde (in her directorial feature debut), and stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in the lead roles. Let me start off with a sweeping statement. Booksmart, in my opinion, completes the recent trifecta of top-tier female led coming-of-age films. After The Edge of Seventeen and…