Posts tagged criticism

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)

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by Edward Montgomery

Impossible Nostalgia, or

What was it that was written above the gates of Hell? “Surrender hope, all ye who enter here,” or some variation thereof?

Anyway, I just thought I’d toss a warning your way—your eyeballs will bleed, and it’ll be a while before we…

Drive (2011)

A piece I did for BWDR - I hope you’ll read it.

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“THERE’S A HUNDRED THOUSAND STREETS IN THIS CITY.”

by Edward Montgomery

Step one for this essay is the communal recitation of our postmodernist plight:

“Nothing is simple these days. Little is whole. We are part technology, part broken-family, part digital, part unknowable, and…

Kung Fu Panda (2011)

brightwalldarkroom:

by Edward Montgomery


“…do not strive for Buddhahood: you will grope in the dark and never find it…”


To lay my cards on the table from the start: I love the original Kung Fu Panda. Adore it. Bought it. Watched it on a monthly basis for a while. Actually gave a Dreamworks film…