It would be futile for me to give you a succinct plot summary of Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters. The movie is the rapper-turned-filmmaker’s sophomore effort in the world of cinema following Sorry to Bother You and, most recently, a digression inside the world of television with the limited series I’m a Virgo. It would also be futile for me to
Read MoreIn this episode of Cosmic Circus Reviews, Vin and Drew breakdown the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms from the Game of Thrones universe. They also discuss the state of the franchise overall and what other media adaptations can learn from the success of the show. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 is now streaming on
Read MoreMamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet, a derivative adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The film begins with the most spiritually charged image of the Japanese animator’s career as the titular character (voiced by Mana Ashida) arrives in the “Otherworld,” a purgatory that stands between life and “nothingness.” Scarlet attempts to fight her internal (and external) demons and prove to the forces that be that
Read MorePercy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 returned with much more confidence than the first. There wasn’t a lot of careful threading, like in season 1, to test out the waters. There’s no more burden of introduction to this world, explaining who the gods are and their role in all of it, how demigods are born, what Camp Half-Blood is, etc.
Read MoreIt’s been two years since the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series debuted on Disney+. Now the season 2 premiere episodes have thrown us right back into this world, and from the first minutes, it looks like we’re in for another great adaptation of the books. The first season was all about Percy (Walker Scobell) discovering the truth that he was
Read MoreWicked: For Good has finally flown into theaters worldwide after an excruciating year-long wait! The second half of the popular Broadway show, For Good explores Elphaba fighting to expose the lying Wizard of Oz and intersects with Dorothy’s mission to defeat her. But the film deliberately glosses over Dorothy’s story, assuming audiences are already intimately familiar with her journey from the
Read MoreA24’s Eternity is a story about the journey rather than the destination. The question of whether an afterlife exists and what it consists of has been a topic of debate since the beginning of time. Since the advent of film, filmmakers have endeavored to explore this concept. Eternity presents an afterlife where the newly deceased must choose a destination to spend their
Read MoreFollowing the smash hit Wicked on the Broadway stage back in 2003, it was only inevitable that a film adaptation would eventually follow suit with last year’s Wicked and this year’s Wicked: For Good. For Good marks an interesting crossroad of sorts in the story as it adapts act two and onwards of the show, which has been infamously cited as a
Read MoreSeason four of Netflix’s The Witcher is a soft reboot of the series, and no one hides it. It is bigger in scale, more determined in its serious tone, and works better at moments than the last two seasons. It’s one of those Netflix projects that must do two things at once. It must reintroduce us to a well-known world with
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