All posts by Tyrone Barnes

Structurally, it works. Aesthetically, it dazzles. Narratively and musically, it’s seen better days.

It is how they contrast with real good, not how they match up with real evil (which they don’t), that makes the Addams so lovable.

I honestly do not think that a film like "Joker" could have come at a better time...

Just because the meal is familiar in its ingredients and arrangement, doesn’t mean it isn’t appreciable in its delivery.

Okay, so why does this movie exist?

Please don’t tell me that of all the things that Mr. Stark left behind, the one thing that will get the lion’s share of attention is his bloated sense of self-importance.

Yes, it was good to open up the toy box one more time. Yes, it was good to know that the toys still work after all these years. Yes, it’s great that we got to see them cut loose and that it’s largely just as fun as we remember. With all that said, it’s [...]

As the Chinese-born author and social critic Os Guinness once stated, “Differences make a difference. Contrast is the mother of clarity.”

Seriously, what WAS that? If your plot is too thin, do you take several equally thin plots and fold them over each other hoping to have something that justifies a feature length production? Okay, in concept that’s not the worst idea.

Horror stories about the ocean are something of a cultural universal in actuality. Every civilization throughout history has tales of terrifying monstrosities lurking in the great unknown of the earth’s seas, and such dread spawned from its being such a [...]

Alien works ultimately because it can’t help but call out to that hope even in the pitch black of space and in the horrific face of death.  It is that hope that wins out, because Alien not only calls, but screams for it.

UglyDolls isn't a bad movie...just not a very good one.

David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! is a work of superhero cinema that seems to be a bit out of its time, but actually in a good way.

Thematically, it’s pretty clear as to what Wonderland represents. The theme park is the incarnation of June’s creative psyche: weathered and unkempt due to neglect, overrun by malicious entities due to the worry and grief June has bottled up since her [...]