12 Angry Men endures, from the 50’s to the 90’s
I recently watched 1957’s 12 Angry Men with a friend who recommended it. She said, “You don’t expect a movie about twelve guys arguing in a room to be so…
Does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes live up to its predecessors?
Ah, Planet of the Apes. We’ve come from latex masks and low(er) budgets to seamlessly CGI’ed chimpanzees and gorgeous, transporting settings. But has the quality of storytelling remained the same?…
Netflix’s Nimona elevates the themes of Stevenson’s heroine
I first read ND Stevenson’s Nimona back in high school, a year or two after it was published in 2015. (Published by HarperCollins, that is - it began as a…
The Old Guard: Movie Review
Once, when I was a kid, I saw a brief glimpse of a movie playing on the hotel TV. Flipping through channels, I paused there. It would be years before…
