Kali Wallace

Jan 22, 2025 | reactormag.com | Kali Wallace

Primer (2004) Directed by Shane Carruth. Written by Shane Carruth. Starring Shane Carruth and David Sullivan. Let’s begin with a brief wander through a bit of film history. Following World War II, the whole world was making movies. In the United States that included some of the most iconic films to ever come out of the Hollywood studio system, such as Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Searchers (1956), Some Like It Hot (1959), and Ben-Hur (1959).

Jan 15, 2025 | reactormag.com | Kali Wallace

Timecrimes (Spanish: Los cronocrímenes) (2007) Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Written by Nacho Vigalondo. Starring Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo, Candela Fernández, and Bárbara Goenaga. A lot of time travel stories are about trying to make things better, or at least trying to maintain the status quo. Many are about changing the past or fixing a mistake, or fighting important battles, catching criminals, or finding love across time.

Jan 14, 2025 | reactormag.com | Kali Wallace

I go through phases in my TV watching. I seize onto a certain type of show and watch it compulsively until something else distracts me. I probably won’t ever subject you to the results of my Depressed and Divorced Nordic Detectives phase, although I might someday share the fruits of my Extravagantly Long Chinese Costume Dramas phase, or perhaps my Weird Time Travel Around the World phase.

Jan 8, 2025 | reactormag.com | Kali Wallace

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Directed by Doug Liman. Written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and illustrator Yoshitoshi Abe. Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, and Brendan Gleeson. Let’s get one thing out of the way: All You Need Is Kill is a superior title. They shouldn’t have changed it.

Dec 11, 2024 | reactormag.com | Kali Wallace

Save the Green Planet! (Korean: 지구를 지켜라!) (2003) Directed by Jang Joon-hwan. Written by Jang Joon-hwan. Starring Shin Ha-kyun and Baek Yoon-sik. While reading about this movie, I should have kept count of all different ways film critics found to say, “What the fuck did I just watch?”I can’t read Korean, so I’m relying on English-language reactions from mostly Western critics. I don’t know in detail what the reaction to the film was in Korea, but I think it was pretty positive.