The Foxy Film Fan

(The following review is spoiler-free!) "Enola is alone backwards," our protagonist tells us in one of her many monologues. She tells us many things - how she's feeling, what she's thinking, where she thinks she should go next. Her wide gaze is disconcerting and her sunny disposition grating. This isn't Sherlock Holmes, this is Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill playing dress-up. Everything about Netflix's newest release is grating. Its mystery begs us to care for cartoonish characters who speak to us as if we're watching an episode of Dora the Explorer. Showing rather than telling is thrown to the wayside in favor of constant fourth wall breaks to beat your sense of immersion into a bloody pulp. Enola Holmes  wants you to know that you're watching a movie, and that it's the funniest, wittiest, and most important movie you're ever going to see (unfortunately, in light of recent events that very well may be true). From its fast-paced editing to...

Captain America: Civil War (2016) Film is a beautiful medium of story telling which opens paths to communicating ideas and tales in ways that other forms of art could never accomplish, through the blending of sights and sounds and the addition of new computer generated effects film is able to tell stories which have never been told before. So, why is it that this beautiful and fascinating form of art is being used to tell the same stories time after time? Over and over again we see the same stories, borrowed from books, comics, or even older films being updated in the name of adding special effects or somehow bettering something which was already made the way the artist originally envisioned it. Is this use of film truly the best we can accomplish? Please don't misinterpret this article as a call for putting a stop to the films in the marvel franchise, or the next installment in Star Wars  (believe me, I'm as excited for Rogue One  as you are), but as a plea to filmma...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) The action genre is perhaps the most popular genre of film. The addition of CGI to modern cinema brought along endless possibilities for fantastic stories, it brought unimaginable levels of creative freedom and provided directors and screenwriters the ability to take characters to far off lands and into other universes to face off against horrifying monsters beyond our wildest dreams. Unfortunately, none of this is what filmmakers have been giving us for the past several years. Instead, we have received an endless supply of remakes. Sit back and think of the last action movie you saw which wasn't based on something else. The last action movie which wasn't inspired by a novel, a reinterpretation of an older movie, based off of a toy, or some bizarre sequel which also serves as a prequel to a film which has long since been forgotten. It's practically impossible. Even fantastic recent releases in the action genre aren...