DIRECTOR’S CUT REVIEWED

My morbid curiosity about this “director’s cut” finally overcame any semblance of common sense (alongside a quixotic hope that maybe this alternate cut will make a good film series), and thus I decided to finally watch Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Rebel Moon Part 1, a film which he already had complete creative control over.

So to start off, this should have been called an “extended cut” rather than a “director’s cut.” That label gives a far…

Straightforwardly, this is a very good film. It’s essentially a time travel story, though of a mystical rather than sci-fi variety, where a woman wishes that she could relive a horrible previous year and avoid all the mistakes she perceived herself as doing. But (as in all good time travel stories), things don’t go as planned.

It’s kind of like a feature length “Twilight Zone” episode for most of the runtime, and my biggest criticism is probably that the story…

The greatest legacy of Space Jam 2 is, without question, the fact that it caused people to properly re-evaluate this film.

Now in someways I am completely incapable of reviewing this film, since this was one of those films I watched all the time as a kid. If I was being objective with my score, it would probably be a 3.5, but nostalgia helps make it a 4. I will say that rewatching this film did remind me how this…

Well this is a complete surprise. First let me start off by saying I had literally never heard of this movie before stumbling across it on HBO. That fact honestly caught me off guard, given how this movie looked like a quality historical drama made with well known actors. When I began watching though, I realized I had heard of the movie’s story before. It was from, of all places, an old Cracked article on lost films. So it was…