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JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

June 9, 2022 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

At two hours and twenty-six minutes, JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION is as hefty as the ginormous terrestrial behemoths that feature prominently in it, and it is just as ungainly. It lumbers along using the intertia of its sheer mass to propel along a story that is as dedicated to calling out classics as it is to… Read More »

Tagged With: corgi-sized locusts, dinosaur, gentetically modified crops, hissy fit, industrial farming, paleontologist, raptor-whisperer, sequel, therapsid

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM

June 22, 2018 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM

I’ll give JURASSIC WORLD:FALLEN KINGDOM this. When it leaps off the rails into utter inanity, it does so with grim determination and the courage of its (misguided) convictions. It continues on, camera swooping majestically and music swelling heroically with monotonous regularity, robbing the few truly worthy moments of their specialness, and drowning the rest of… Read More »

Tagged With: de-extinction, dinosaurs, genetic engineering, sequel, volcano

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

April 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

For sheer value-for-money, you can’t top AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.  It’s pure entertainment with an endless parade of the kind of whiz-bang special effects, not quite sloppy sentiment, and a constant barrage of the quips and banter that define grace under pressure in the Marvel Universe. Plus, pretty much everyone from the MCU finds his or… Read More »

Tagged With: Avengers, cliffhanger, Cloak of Levitation, crossover, Infinity Stones, Malthus, Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. II

May 7, 2017 By Leave a Comment

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. II

When GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY blazed into theaters a few years back, it set a high standard for effects-laden sci-fi played for laughs. Volume II has now blazed into theaters, but that standard has not quite been met. This sequel drifts a bit into maudlin sentimentality that has no place in this particular universe, even… Read More »

Tagged With: cheese, daddy issues, irony, sequel, sisters, snarky, space battle

PASSENGERS

December 27, 2016 By 1 Comment

PASSENGERS

PASSENGERS is a long, increasingly preposterous slog whose most tantalizing element is the question of why Jennifer Lawrence looks so very much like a young Renee Zellweger in some shots.  Has there always been such a striking resemblance, or is it that this film is so tedious and predictable that one has the time to… Read More »

Tagged With: android, colonization, ethics, flavored coffee, robots, romance, spaceflight, star ship, suspended animation, zero gravity

ZERO DARK THIRTY

August 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DARK THIRTY

ZERO DARK THIRTY starts, tellingly, with a dark screen and audio clips from 9/11. Air traffic control chatter, 911 calls, and the anguished, astonished voices of people who have no frame of reference for what is happening to and around them. In doing so, the film compels the viewer to relive that day not with… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, Al Qaeda, based on a true story, CIA, covert operations, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, narrative, Navy SEALS, Osama Bin Ladin

JURASSIC WORLD Bigger Dinosaurs, Less Fun

June 15, 2015 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD Bigger Dinosaurs, Less Fun

There’s a problem when the most complex character in a film is the dinosaur.  Then again, JURASSIC WORLD is a film,  that like the eponymous amusement park depicted within its two-hour or so running time, has only those extinct animals to offer by way of novelty.  Not that this quasi-sequel to JURASSIC PARK is bad,… Read More »

Tagged With: amusement parks, Bryce Dallas Howard, cgi, Chris Pratt, Chris Robinson, dinosaurs, gene splicing, Irfan Khan, Jake Johnson, JURASSIC PARK, military-industrial complex, Sci-fi, Ty Simpkins

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