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Gal Gadot, the actress that plays Wonder Woman in WW84 standing in her wonder woman uniform with a gold background, looking off into the distance.

“WW84” review: A wonderful disaster

Mason Dredge
January 20, 2021

When a big-budget, studio tentpole film fails to deliver, the experience of watching them is often similar. They are overly long and cliched-to-death mechanical messes that care little for quality once people have bought their tickets. “Wonder Woman: 1984” (also known as...

Borat Two characters squatting in sand

“Borat 2” review: A satire the world needs

Mason Dredge
November 4, 2020

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” also known as “Borat 2,” is the only pleasant surprise to come out of 2020 so far. Having brought great shame on Kazakhstan after the...

“Tenet” review: Nolan should go back in time and make a better movie

“Tenet” review: Nolan should go back in time and make a better movie

Mason Dredge
September 8, 2020

“Tenet” is a bad movie, and not just by its director Christopher Nolan’s (one of Hollywood’s most bankable directors) standards. It is genuinely, for the most part, unentertaining and sometimes a downright chore to sit through. The film follows an unnamed spy (played...

Why must the Dark Knight be so dark

Why must the Dark Knight be so dark

Mason Dredge
September 2, 2020

The first trailer for the much anticipated “The Batman” has finally emerged from the shadows.  Matt Reeves (director of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”) will direct the new film starring everybody’s favorite smelly sad boy, Robert Pattinson, as the titular...

Op-ed: The American spirit is sick

Op-ed: The American spirit is sick

Mason Dredge
April 22, 2020

“Listen to me. If we break quarantine, we could all die.” These lines are spoken by Ellen Ripley in the film “Alien” after a fellow astronaut has been exposed to an extraterrestrial organism of unknown origin. Everyone else wants to bring him onto their ship to save...

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