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Ready Player One
While the book really wallowed in nostalgia and structured the story around it, the movie fits the nostalgia into its story a little bit bet

Ben Pivoz
Apr 4, 2018


Pacific Rim: Uprising
There just is not that much to say about Pacific Rim: Uprising. It is exactly what it looks like: a big, goofy, sci-fi, action/adventure tha

Ben Pivoz
Mar 24, 2018


Annihilation
Annihilation is an ambitious, fascinating, complex, beautiful and frustrating science fiction film. At times it is absolutely mesmerizing. A

Ben Pivoz
Feb 28, 2018


Maze Runner: The Death Cure
The entire Maze Runner series is one of the better examples in recent memory of films that were completely carried by their production. If t

Ben Pivoz
Feb 3, 2018


Downsizing
Every once in a rare while, I see a movie so baffling, so completely inexplicable that I wonder what the filmmakers could possibly have been

Ben Pivoz
Dec 24, 2017


Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
This film plays with familiar tropes from the series by introducing them and then deconstructing them. In The Force Awakens they reintroduce

Ben Pivoz
Dec 23, 2017


Blade Runner 2049
The main draw is the visuals painstakingly created by director Denis Villeneuve. Every detail of every frame appears to have been carefully

Ben Pivoz
Oct 14, 2017


Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
I have seen a lot of movies in my life and it is rare that I see something I’ve never seen before. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Plane

Ben Pivoz
Jul 25, 2017


Alien: Covenant
The film is slow-paced, but it never seems to drag. There are some solid references to moments from previous films in the series for longtim

Ben Pivoz
May 19, 2017


Sleight
It’s a lot of story for a relatively short film. However, director/co-writer JD Dillard is able to keep things moving at a nice pace, thanks

Ben Pivoz
Apr 28, 2017
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