Yes, it’s finally time to review the third and final installment of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy! I keep saying it in each of the previous parts of this review series, but there’s really almost nothing bad about these movies. I’ll take it one step further: there is almost nothing about …
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Review: ‘The Two Towers’
Welcome to the second part of my review of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy! As I mentioned in Part 1, these reviews are specifically about the films, not the books. So please don’t be upset if I talk about something that’s not in the books or neglect something that is in the …
Review: The Fellowship of the Ring
Two things have inspired this new series of blog posts: one was fellow blogger and author Berthold Gambrel’s series of reviews of 90’s action movies, and the other was a post on Twitter asking users to name four movies that they find to be flawless masterpieces. And so, I intend to do a review of …
Review: The Borgias
I recently finished watching HBO’s The Borgias on Netflix, a historical drama centered around the controversial Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia, as he ascends to the Papal throne and then does everything in his power for the next 10 years to defend it. The Borgia family has long been known as a family of …
Movie Review: Don’t Breathe
Don’t Breathe is a horror movie that came out 5 years ago and apparently it now has a sequel in theaters. I haven’t seen the sequel and I’m not going to because I hated the first one, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. The plot of the first movie revolves around a group of …
Review: Toy Story 4
Yes, it’s been out for a while but recently my kids have been obsessed with all things Toy Story, so I thought I’d share my thoughts. Short review: Whyyyyyyyyyyyy? Long review: My first thought upon hearing of a Toy Story 4 movie was my above response: why? The story had concluded! Andy grew up, he …
Frozen II Review
As a father of two, I have of course become an expert on all things Disney, and that includes the recent Frozen sequel. It released to general acclaim and praise, but for me it gets a shoulder shrug. My main issue with the movie was the bluntness of its message. In the first Frozen, you …