This article was posted on March 20th to the AnthonyReviews Substack. Subscribe to read there first! This article was originally written for and published on The Game of Nerds. Screen Crush film critic Matt Singer coined the term legacyquel in 2015 as the Star Wars franchise returned to the movies with The Force Awakens. ItContinueContinue reading “Legacyquels Are Murdering Movies”
Author Archives: Anthony Oleszkiewicz
Facing the History of Star Wars’ Oscars
Star Wars’ Oscars history is a quietly interesting one. While the franchise garnered a handful of nominations and wins, laypeople and fans likely would say the most popular film series of all time deserves better. Most characterize the Academy Awards as uptight and exclusive gatekeepers that rarely showcase “the movies people actually saw.” Examining thatContinueContinue reading “Facing the History of Star Wars’ Oscars”
Are Social Justice Superheroes Bad? (Spoilers, no)
This article was originally published 1/9/2024. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to our newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe Real-world injustice has always driven the movies (see my article “Movies Shouldn’t Be Political”). As it should; making large-scale movies about real-world topics can truly affect change. But the audience’s annoyance at making that connectionContinueContinue reading “Are Social Justice Superheroes Bad? (Spoilers, no)”
“Movies Shouldn’t Be Political”
This article was originally published 12/05/2023. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to our newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe To have a legitimate conversation about the state of movies, we need to get one baseline assumption out of the way. Cinema can be and (almost) always is political. If you are a self-interrogative, artistically aware person thenContinueContinue reading ““Movies Shouldn’t Be Political””
The Beginning of ‘Rick and Morty”s End?
This very quick (and very old) ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 7 Episode 1 review was originally published on the AnthonyReviews Substack on 11/6/2023. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to the newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe Tentatively pessimistic. That’s how viewers likely feel after the premiere of the latest Rick and Morty episode starring newcomersContinueContinue reading “The Beginning of ‘Rick and Morty”s End?”
Prediction: Taylor Swift Will Change Cinema Amid Hollywood Strikes
This article was originally published 9/14/2023. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to our newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe Have you ever repeated a joke so often that you forget the grain of truth that makes it funny? Mine has to do with my occupation. Although I am first and foremost a filmContinueContinue reading “Prediction: Taylor Swift Will Change Cinema Amid Hollywood Strikes”
Sunshine: A Movie About Killing God
Our sun is dying. The earth has frozen over. In the not too distant future, one solar-powered vessel loaded with the last of the planet’s resources is sent to spark a new sun out of the old and begin the dawn of a new age for humanity. Its crew’s quest diverts when they receive aContinueContinue reading “Sunshine: A Movie About Killing God”
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: Barely An Impression of a Movie
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania isn’t even the fast food meal we usually expect from the MCU, but a pale carrot on a stick promising more of whatever you like; watching it feels like eating a menu. Marvel’s superhero films have long been accused of being commercials for themselves. At their best, they at least rebelContinueContinue reading “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: Barely An Impression of a Movie”
The 10 Best Movies of 2022
If you like four star cinema, 2022 was a good year for movies. Lots of great films were released that didn’t quite hit masterpiece status, most of them about depression, debauchery, divided class, or some combination thereof. We still went to the movies (or, the disgustingly more likely alternative, sat on the couch) for escapism,ContinueContinue reading “The 10 Best Movies of 2022”
10 Movie Spotlights of 2022
The form associated with a ranked best-of-the-year list carries an assumption of objectivity. Some critics will counter this by stating right at the beginning that “art is subjective” as an excuse for where their sensibility overtakes reason. Instead, I have decided to do something different. In addition to my top ten of 2022, there wereContinueContinue reading “10 Movie Spotlights of 2022”
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