Tag: Netflix
This tag gathers reviews of films available on or produced by Netflix — originals and catalog alike. The reviews treat each as storytelling first, regardless of how it was distributed. The collection grows as more titles are reviewed.
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The Punisher (1989, 2004, 2008)
Three theatrical Punisher films: 1989 Lundgren, 2004 Jane, 2008 Stevenson. Three distinct approaches, three distinct production eras. -
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Ghost in the Shell is the live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga and the subsequent animated films and television series. Rupert Sanders... -
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Honor Among Thieves is the rare studio fantasy film that knows what it is and commits to it without apology. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley... -
The Shrek Franchise (2001-2022) — Review
The Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as substantial... -
The Resident Evil Series (2002-2016) — Review
The Resident Evil series is one of the most commercially successful video game adaptation franchises in cinema history. Paul W.S. Anderson directed four of the six films and produced all of them. Milla Jovovich starred in all six films. The series ran from 2002 through 2016. The combined worldwide... -
Chicken Run (2000) — Review
Chicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial feature production company. Peter Lord and Nick Park directed. Karey Kirkpatrick wrote the screenplay from story development by Lord and Park.... -
Cleopatra (1934 / 1945 / 1963 / 1999 / 2023) — Contrast Review
Cleopatra VII Philopator has been one of the most extensively dramatized historical figures in screen cinema history. The last active pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt from 51 BCE until her death in 30 BCE. Her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, her political maneuvering... -
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022) — Review
Erich Maria Remarque published Im Westen nichts Neues in 1929. The novel sold over a million copies in its first year. The Nazis later burned it and stripped Remarque of his German citizenship. The book remains one of the most important antiwar novels ever written and one of the best primary... -
The Disney+ Series Drain
How streaming productions consumed franchise attention, generated narrative obligations theatrical films had to honor or ignore, and damaged the broader MCU. -
Groundhog Day (1993) — Review
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and the time-loop comedy that doubles as theology. Studied in religion classes and philosophy seminars. Groundhog Day at 10+/10.