I had initially assumed this movie was going to be what it felt like: a somewhat realistic, somewhat dramatized presentation of a fracturing America that uses our current sociopolitical flashpoints to frame the action. Instead, what I watched was a thriller as much as a disaster movie, focusing on the trials of war reporting and…

When I first heard about The Whale, it was in the context of it being Brendan Fraser’s comeback role. I loved The Mummy growing up and still think it’s a great series, and somewhere along the way I learned that Fraser had unfortunate circumstances abound surrounding his (now thankfully temporary) decline. It was nice to…

This movie’s one of many that I come across: ones that sound great, that I jot down to watch later, and never actually follow through on. In fact, the only reason I even watched it tonight was because my father picked it out this afternoon. While I’m dreadfully glacial in addressing my own ever-growing backlog,…