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Animals Rising
Between the impacts of climate change and humankind’s more conscious efforts to destroy wild habitats, it’s easy to view the natural world as being widely under siege and in retreat. Two recent films show how, pushed to the brink, the animal world might someday choose to strike back. Both are revenge fantasies in which cold-blooded humans are forced to pay the price for their speciesism — the term that philosopher and animals’ rights activist Peter Singer coined more than 40 years ago — and outright brutality. That both are from Eastern Europe is probably coincidental, as the sensibilities of the films are completely different.
By David Bogoslaw8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Thor: Ragnorak'
Thor: Ragnorak is a heck of a lot of fun. Director Taika Waititi is the first director to fully tap the potential of the Thor character and star Chris Hemsworth. Though we’re aware from The Avengers’ movies that Hemsworth is a real talent, he’s not had a solo, leading man effort that has lived up to the outings of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man or Chris Evans as Captain America. Even Tom Holland had schooled Hemsworth by making his Spiderman: Homecoming this past summer one of the best reviewed and well-loved movies in the Marvel canon.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Looking Back at Rob Zombie's 'Halloween' 10 Years Later
Ten years ago, Rob Zombie shared with us his vision of a rebooted Halloween movie. Director and co-writer of Halloween (1978) John Carpenter gave his blessing to Rob Zombie on the condition that he made the movie his own and not a shot for shot remake (like Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho).
By John Gately8 years ago in Horror
