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Wearily Wading Through Avatar: The Way of Water

March 11, 2023January 30, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Avatar The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water is a monument to James Cameron’s business model but stutters on every other artistic or dramatic criterion imaginable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Fantasy, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Movie Series, Sam Worthington, Science Fiction, Sequel, Zoe Saldana Leave a comment

Batman: Unfinished Business

February 11, 2023March 3, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Batman

Batman reflects the charm and the cost of a script that was not properly finished. But its lead and its meticulous visual design still enchant.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Action, Batman, Comic Book Movie, Danny Elfman, DC Comics, Fantasy, Jack Nicholson, Kim Bassinger, Michael Keaton, Movie Series, Tim Burton Leave a comment

Batman Returns: Action Fairytale

February 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Batman Returns

Tim Burton’s Batman Returns is a dark Christmas fable, an action fairytale. It’s the whole experience of reading comics in one painful, beautiful mythology.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1990s, Batman, Christopher Walken, Comic Book Movie, Danny DeVito, DC, Fantasy, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Movie Series, Sequel, Superhero, Tim Burton 1 Comment

The Legend of Zelda and the Fantasy Feeling: Do Video Games Have to Be Art?

May 10, 2022February 21, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Legend of Zelda

On its anniversary, The Legend of Zelda is a still-brilliant piece of fantasy fiction and a discussion piece for the question of video games as art.

Categories Features Tags Fantasy, Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda, The Lord of the Rings, Video Games Leave a comment

Zack Snyder vs Superman: Why Intent Became Conflict in Man of Steel

June 14, 2022February 2, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Man of Steel Zack Snyder

A response to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel as well as to the debates about it, including both its problematic execution and its honest desire for greatness.

Categories Features Tags 2010s, Action, Amy Adams, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, DCEU, Fantasy, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, Science Fiction, Superman, Zack Snyder Leave a comment

The Santa Clause 2: Carefree Christmas

May 13, 2022January 14, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Santa Clause 2 Tim Allen

The Santa Clause 2 has Tim Allen’s standup and farting reindeer, but it feels like Christmas. Let me explain why I keep watching it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2000s, Disney, Elizabeth Mitchell, Fantasy, Movie Series, Romance, Sequel, Tim Allen Leave a comment

The White Reindeer: A Myth of Innocence

September 9, 2022December 27, 2021 by M.C. Myers
The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer is equal parts history, horror, and fairytale – a myth of innocence, in a landscape of snow and terror.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1950s, Christmas, Fantasy, Horror 1 Comment

Conan the Barbarian: The Days of Working Out

December 23, 2021November 10, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Conan the Barbarian Arnold Schwarzenegger

Conan the Barbarian throws itself into the brutal past, wielding its actor’s charm like a broadsword. Only plot conventions are strong enough to hurt him.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Action, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Based on a Book, Fantasy Leave a comment

Dragonslayer: Fairytale Performance

April 8, 2022November 4, 2021 by M.C. Myers

Dragonslayer has the texture of the old fables. It finds adventure in a stricken world, including a lot of horror for the characters. And delight for us.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Fantasy, Peter MacNicol, Ralph RIchardson Leave a comment

Alice Through the Looking Glass: To the Anti-Wonder

December 23, 2021November 4, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass is to wonderment what purging is to eating. It not only robs you of your meal – it even makes you regret it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Anne Hathaway, Based on a Book, Disney, Fantasy, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Movie Series Leave a comment

My Neighbor Totoro: Magic Perspective

June 15, 2022November 4, 2021 by M.C. Myers
My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro may not be Miyazaki’s best work, but it’s his quiet thesis. And one of the most magical things ever drawn.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1980s, Animated, Fantasy, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli Leave a comment

Sleepy Hollow: High Homage

March 20, 2023November 3, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Sleepy Hollow Johnny Depp

Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is an underappreciated throwback horror gem. Chilly, cheesy, and sometimes completely beautiful.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1990s, Christina Ricci, Emmanuel Lubezki, Fantasy, Horror, Ian McDiarmid, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton Leave a comment

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Homemade Magic

October 13, 2022November 1, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Harry Potter

The first Harry Potter film is not an epic but an invitation. Dark as a forest. Nice as a librarian. Warm as a fireplace.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2000s, Alan Rickman, Based on a Book, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Fantasy, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Maggie Smith, Movie Series, Rupert Grint Leave a comment

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