Category: Movies

Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Review

Written by Tucker R. King on September 22, 2020. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Early on in Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) tells the camera, “Me and the Joker? We broke up.” This declaration sets out the film’s mission statement. This is a new and improved Harley Quinn, one unshackled from the...

The Lighthouse Review

Written by Tucker R. King on December 22, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is a film about two people slowly going mad. Not only that, the film pushes you to the edge of sanity, too. Through sound design and filmmaking style, the film evokes the feeling of watching someone else’s fever-induced nightmare. The constant crashing of...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Review

Written by Tucker R. King on December 20, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Forty-two years after the original film changed cinema forever, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker comes along to put a cap on the core nine-film Star Wars saga. Whatever you thought of 2017’s The Last Jedi, that film felt like it was trying to build a new house on old ground. The Rise of Skywalker...

Knives Out Review

Written by Tucker R. King on December 4, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is, in my book, the most purely entertaining film of the year (sorry, Avengers: Endgame). Every twist and turn of this carefully crafted whodunnit is thrilling. And not only is this film a tight little mystery story, but it also has a bit of scathing social commentary...

Spider-Man: Far From Home Review

Written by Tucker R. King on July 4, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Spider-Man: Far From Home is light and sweet, a winning combination of high school comedy and superhero action. It serves as the dessert at the end of the six-course meal that was Marvel Studios’ third phase. I don’t think anyone is dying for another Marvel movie already, just two months...

Rocketman Review

Written by Tucker R. King on June 10, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Following last year’s disappointing and problematic Bohemian Rhapsody, I found it hard to have high expectations for Rocketman. For one, the (uncredited) director of Bohemian Rhapsody, Dexter Fletcher was helming this film. Add that to the fact that I had never really listened to Elton John’s...

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu Review

Written by Tucker R. King on May 10, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Unlike most fans of the franchise, I didn’t come to Pokémon through the original games. Rather, I bought Pokémon Ruby with my meager allowance when I was 10 years old. As soon as I clicked that cartridge into my GameBoy Advance and flicked the power switch on, I was transported into another...

Avengers: Endgame Review

Written by Tucker R. King on April 29, 2019. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Avengers: Endgame is the 22nd installment in the monolithic Marvel Cinematic Universe, and serves as the culmination of a decade of blockbuster filmmaking, marking the results of years of work from thousands of people. It is a film made up of dozens of colliding plot lines, and familiar heroes from...

Shazam! Review

Written by Tucker R. King on April 8, 2019. Posted in Movies. 1 Comment

At the core of any superhero story is one thing – joyous wish fulfillment. Anyone who has ever read a superhero comic book has wanted to be one; to wake up one day with special powers, to fight evil, to do things no ordinary human can do. This fantasy is directly entertained by Shazam!, as...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review

Written by Tucker R. King on December 19, 2018. Posted in Movies. Leave a Comment

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a pure blast of creative joy and easily the best superhero film to come out in 2018. Despite being rooted in a vividly specific, recognizable New York, and as close as it hews to comic-book imagery as it does, Spider-Verse is a wonderfully trippy, dreamlike adventure....