Review: Wicked: Part One
Over the past two months, I had the pleasure of assistant directing a production of A Christmas Carol that directly lifted elements from The Wizard of ...
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Review: Barbie
Everybody knows Barbie. Even if you’ve never played with a Barbie doll, you know who Barbie is just through cultural osmosis. She’s one ...
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Review: Persuasion
Netflix released its latest film Friday evening: an adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion. Starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, Cosmo Jarvis ...
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Seriously, why did no one tell me Paddington 2 was perfect?
I don’t believe in perfection as a concept. In my mind, you can get close to perfect, but there are bound to be ...
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Golden Cages 2021: Best Director
[2021 has mercifully ended, which means it’s that time of the year again when the Flixist staff gathers around for our 2021 Golden ...
Review: Belle
Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle is a departure for the director. Up until this point, most, if not all, of Hosoda’s movies have solely focused on ...
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Review: The Witcher – Season Two
It feels like eons since Netflix debuted its TV adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher novels in late 2019. Time kind of stood ...
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Netflix cans Cowboy Bebop after one season
It should come as no surprise to anyone, but Netflix has canceled its live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation after just one season. Announcing the ...
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Weeb Analysis: Cowboy Bebop
[Hello all and welcome back to Weeb Analysis where this month we’ll be taking a look at the polarizing Western reimagining of Cowboy Bebop. Weeb ...
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Netflix’s Castlevania is good fun but not great fun
Back in 2017, I invited one of my college friends over to my place for the weekend in the summer. He lives in ...
First look at Dear Evan Hansen the film
After smashing the Broadway box office, Dear Evan Hansen is now set to do the same thing in movie theaters. That’s right musical ...
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Review: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
The cinematic history of Tom Clancy’s novels has been pretty mixed. While the first film, The Hunt For Red October, was an excellent ...