by Alexander Sharp | Dec 19, 2022
I’ve been using Midjourney, an AI text-to-image generator, to make the images for this website for a couple of months now. For a person such as myself with zero artistic talent, Midjourney provides the opportunity to have custom art without paying out the nose....
by Alexander Sharp | Dec 4, 2022
Rating In 1998, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and Terrance Malick’s The Thin Red Line were both released, treating audiences to big budget World War II movies full of big stars. I was fourteen at the time and to my teenage self, Saving Private...
by Alexander Sharp | Nov 6, 2022
The revenge story is one of the oldest tales known to man. The simplicity of the genre lends itself to action as even the Bard himself struggled to create drama around Hamlet’s quest for vengeance. Much has been written about how the fairly straightforward...
by Alexander Sharp | Nov 4, 2022
Rating There may be no greater sin in film than setting up a great mystery only to provide an unsatisfactory solution. Who didn’t feel crushing disappointment at the end of Shutter Island? Or how about Cabin in the Woods? Unfortunately for Don’t Worry...
by Alexander Sharp | Oct 22, 2022
Rating Shane Black’s The Nice Guys is an exercise in comic timing. In many ways, it follows the conventions of the comic buddy action flick that Black himself helped pioneer with screenplays such as Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. While those films are...
