Review: Barbie
Everybody knows Barbie. Even if you’ve never played with a Barbie doll, you know who Barbie is just through cultural osmosis. She’s one ...
Tag: adaptation
Features
Review: Persuasion
Netflix released its latest film Friday evening: an adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion. Starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, Cosmo Jarvis ...
Features
Seriously, why did no one tell me Paddington 2 was perfect?
I don’t believe in perfection as a concept. In my mind, you can get close to perfect, but there are bound to be ...
Features
Golden Cages 2021: Best Director
[2021 has mercifully ended, which means it’s that time of the year again when the Flixist staff gathers around for our 2021 Golden ...
Featured
Review: Belle
Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle is a departure for the director. Up until this point, most, if not all, of Hosoda’s movies have solely focused on ...
Review: The Witcher – Season Two
It feels like eons since Netflix debuted its TV adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher novels in late 2019. Time kind of stood ...
News
Netflix cans Cowboy Bebop after one season
It should come as no surprise to anyone, but Netflix has canceled its live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation after just one season. Announcing the ...
News
Weeb Analysis: Cowboy Bebop
[Hello all and welcome back to Weeb Analysis where this month we’ll be taking a look at the polarizing Western reimagining of Cowboy Bebop. Weeb ...
Featured
Netflix’s Castlevania is good fun but not great fun
Back in 2017, I invited one of my college friends over to my place for the weekend in the summer. He lives in ...
Movies
First look at Dear Evan Hansen the film
After smashing the Broadway box office, Dear Evan Hansen is now set to do the same thing in movie theaters. That’s right musical ...
Review: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
The cinematic history of Tom Clancy’s novels has been pretty mixed. While the first film, The Hunt For Red October, was an excellent ...
News
Live-action Cowboy Bebop wraps its first season
It’s one of those productions that, in my mind, has been make-believe, and not something we’re likely to actually see materialize, though word ...