Author: Cory Woodroof
Ready Player One a Fun, Contemplative Work
Ready Player One dumps pop culture over its audience’s head like a baby playing with a bowl of spaghetti. You’re not just immersed into it – you’re lathered with it. It stays with you like stink on a skunk. You retreat to it, hide in it, elope with it off to for a happy few…
Thor: Ragnarok – The God of Thunder Trades Hammer for Humor
2017: a year in which a movie about The Goddess of Death is the gut-busting comedy of the year. Irony has rarely been penned so beautifully, and so surprisingly signed off by a major, family-friendly studio. Thor: Ragnarok, the latest title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is as much like its predecessors as Shakespeare is…
Review: The Florida Project finds sunshine in the rain
At numerous times in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, the director and co-writer splices together two starkly different realities. One – the city of dreams, where tucked between the highways and residential Orlando lies Disney World, the other happiest place on Earth, where people take family vacation, spend honeymoons and anniversaries, ride roller coasters, stay…
Kathryn Bigelow’s fierce, fervent Detroit is a loud cry for change
Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit pushes its atmosphere like an invading force. Through sheer will and punishing fury, it leaves a charred, empty sense of helplessness, and there’s nothing that can be done to salve the burn. Indeed, audiences who watch Bigelow’s dramatization of the Algiers Motel tragedy will feel the wrath of her filmmaking. An uncomfortable,…
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ will ensnare you in its web
Someone open the shutters, swing open the drapes, and let the sunshine in! Everyone’s favorite web-slinging superhero Spider-Man has his groove back in the joyous Spider-Man: Homecoming. After an early 2010s run with mixed results and the worry that a new stab at the spider would put audiences off the iconic character, Marvel Studios has…