Tag: movies

  • Celebrating Halloween’s Suspense (Without the Scares)

    Celebrating Halloween’s Suspense (Without the Scares)

    Halloween is a scary holiday, which I sometimes struggle to celebrate because I don’t like horror. If it’s dark or suspenseful, fine. If it’s creepy or spooky, I can take it. But I’m not into too many jump scares, or anything too unbelievable, or scenes so disturbing I won’t be able to sleep afterwards. For…

  • 5 Things I Loved about “Logan”

    5 Things I Loved about “Logan”

    James Mangold’s Logan is not like other X-Men movies. While I have enjoyed the X-Men series overall, I’m not the biggest fan, I don’t know the lore well, and I’ve never cared much for Wolverine’s gruff character. But that’s exactly why I was excited to see Logan. I had heard it was different, and it is.…

  • Why “Passengers” Would Have Made a Great Indie Movie (*SPOILERS)

    Why “Passengers” Would Have Made a Great Indie Movie (*SPOILERS)

    Major spoilers for Passengers in this post! If you plan to see it, don’t read this yet! Yesterday I saw the movie Passengers. It looked like a popcorn sci-fi flick about two people (Chris Pratt’s Jim and Jennifer Lawrence’s Aurora) who awake from hibernation sleep on a 120-year ride to a new planet. The trouble is that…