J. Thomas Westbrook
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Takes Forever, Gets Halfway
The problems largely center around Thanos (Josh Brolin), the villain of the sprawling film, a large purple man who wants to wipe out half the universe’s inhabitants in a population control plan that suffers from a basic misunderstanding of exponential growth.
'Alto's Odyssey' Launches Genre to New Heights
“Alto’s Odyssey” succeeds with such beauty and grace, one forgets that what one is playing is “just” an endless runner, “just” a game for a phone or tablet. “Alto’s Odyssey” isn’t just the best of its genre—it’s better than its genre.
Arts Vanity: The Fringe Board (A Guide to Crimson Arts)
It’s come to my attention that some people consider the Arts Board to be a “fringe board” with regard to the rest of the Crimson.
‘Fate of the Furious’ Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
The film should have ended there. This opening sequence was spectacular. It took practically all of the franchise’s standout features—vibrant urban scenes, beautiful cars, thrilling race footage—and compressed them into a simple but outstanding ten minutes. And unlike the rest of the film, it was actually about car racing.
‘Taken’ Down a Notch
From almost any angle, this series looks ill-conceived.
Arts Vanity: Seven Stunning Tips for Boosting Arts Readership
A BuzzFeed odyssey with Blog exec and fake journalist J. Thomas Westbrook.
'Keeping Up with the Joneses' Surprisingly Sedate
“Keeping Up with the Jones” is a fundamentally conservative movie: No one is psychotically wacky; no one is cringe-inducingly awkward. The resulting film ends up being rather restrained.
‘Son of Zorn’ Leaves Reality Looking Lifeless
What did this hybrid production look like on the screen? Long story short, animation blows reality out of the water.
Thesis Spotlight: Renee E. Zhan '16
Perhaps that’s a takeaway of the film—not, as in most anthropomorphizing accounts, that animals can be just like us, but rather that we can be just like animals.
'Batman v Superman' Rollicking and Ridiculous
To sum up criticisms of this movie: The plot is terrible. The two demands of the title—to make the two fight and to launch a host of Justice League movies—prove far too much for this script to bear.