Tag: Film Trilogy
This tag gathers reviews of trilogies and multi-film series — work judged as a complete arc rather than one picture at a time. It spans franchises across genre and era, with the reviews asking what the films build together that none could alone, and whether the later entries earn their place. The collection grows as more series are reviewed.
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Films That Blew Their Ending
From Signs' water-allergic aliens to Game of Thrones' Bran — twenty-five films that built something worth watching and then blew it in the final act. What went wrong in each case, and what writers can learn from every mistake. -
Greatest Fantasy Movies – Worlds Beyond Reason
Twenty of cinema's greatest fantasy films, from Excalibur to Pan's Labyrinth. The 1980s golden era, Lord of the Rings, and one catastrophic trilogy — five decades of the genre. -
Greatest Westerns – The Lawless and the Just
Twenty-two of cinema's greatest Westerns from Stagecoach to The Magnificent Seven. The films that asked what a man owes a world that won't stand with him — and what it costs to answer. -
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) — Review
A New Hope is the film that created modern blockbuster cinema, and it did so by being something very specific: a myth engine. Lucas wasn't writing characters in the conventional sense. He was… -
The Lord of the Rings — Review
I walked into a Pickwick bookstore in 1969 at eight years old and saw the big red single-volume edition of The Lord of the Rings on the shelf. My parents didn't think I'd actually read it. I read it… -
Rings of Power — Review
That's the full viewing history. I've since watched clips, read extensive commentary, and confirmed what those twenty minutes told me: the writers don't understand Tolkien's characters, and the… -
The Godfather — Review
The Godfather is the best film ever made from a craft perspective. Not the most entertaining, not the most beloved, not the most influential — though it is all three. The best constructed. The most… -
Back to the Future Trilogy — Review
The Back to the Future trilogy earns its 9.5 by solving the hardest problem in serialized storytelling: making three films that each stand alone while building a cumulative argument none of them… -
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) — Review
Empire earns its 8 by doing what no Star Wars film before or since has managed: it takes the universe seriously. Lucas's original Star Wars is a myth engine — archetypes, simple morality, the… -
Planet of the Apes (1968) — Review
Planet of the Apes has one of the great endings in science fiction cinema and earns its place in the conversation entirely on the basis of that ending. The Statue of Liberty rising from the sand is…