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JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH

July 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH

Right at the beginning of JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH there is a hint that this is a break from the increasingly lackluster sequels to which we have been subjected. It is the moment when we see that Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), the upbeat mercenary of the piece, is recruiting paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) for… Read More »

Tagged With: equatorial Atlantic, evil Big Pharma. ceratopsid, interesting nerd, Mosasaur, prehistoric, sensible footwear, sequel, upbeat mercenary

FLY ME TO THE MOON

July 12, 2024 By Leave a Comment

FLY ME TO THE MOON

It is well worth overlooking the historical inaccuracies to be found in FLY ME TO THE MOON. I’m not talking about the conspiracy theories about how the first moon landing was faked on a soundstage. This bright and breezy look at what may or may not have really happened has dedicated itself to the emotional,… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, conspiracy theories, fake moon landing, Florida, Manhattan, moon landing, NASA, shadowy government agent

ASTEROID CITY

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

ASTEROID CITY

Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY presents us a dream within a dream as it ponders our place in the cosmos by setting its story in three separate realities that bump into each other the way subatomic particles swarm around an atomic nucleus. Is it synchronicity or chance or some other cosmic law of which humanity is… Read More »

Tagged With: competing realities, cremains, desert, military emergency, romance

BLACK WIDOW

July 10, 2021 By Leave a Comment

BLACK WIDOW

Braids, French and other, loom large in the visuals of BLACK WIDOW, and it is an apt metaphor. The ultra-femininity of long, flowing hair rigorously trained into orderly rows of tightly disciplined tresses echoes the rigorous training given to ultra-feminine assassin-turned-Avenger Natasha Romanoff, the eponymous super-heroine in this her first spinoff from the Marvel Universe.… Read More »

Tagged With: braids, French braids, Marvel Universe, MCU, mind control, Red Room, sequel, state assassin

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

April 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

The stakes have been raised so many times with event flicks that, when approaching one, hope is always tempered with experience about what to expect, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson. With AVENGERS: ENDGAME, though, hope wins out. The spectacle is everything it should be, and the story, of necessity a meandering thing, is nonetheless sustained by… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel, superhero, time travel

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

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

May 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR asks the cinematic question “What would happen if we took a whole passel of superheroes from the Marvel Comic universe and tossed them together into one film?”  But wait, what if we pitted them against one another over a fundamental difference of opinion about ethics, and then added a dash (or… Read More »

Tagged With: accountability, global politics, guilt, loyalty, Marvel Comics, sequel, superhero

HAIL, CAESAR!

February 5, 2016 By 1 Comment

HAIL, CAESAR!

If Douglas Sirk had directed a film noir written by Billy Wilder, it might have looked something like HAIL, CAESAR!, the latest thoughtful tangle of philosophy and whimsy from the Coen Brothers. Taking place in a 1951 Hollywood not entirely unlike the one that actually existed, it mixes Cold War paranoia, carefully managed studio PR… Read More »

Tagged With: aquatic ballet, biblical epic, choreography, film business, Hollywood, kidnapping, studio fixer, studio system

CAPTAIN AMERICA — THE WINTER SOLDIER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

fIn CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, Captain Steve Rodgers, aka Captain America (Chris Evans), is experiencing an existential crisis. It’s not just that he has a lot of catching up to do after being cryogenically asleep for seventy years or so. The novelty of Thai food and the internet don’t get him down, it’s the… Read More »

LOST IN TRANSLATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

With LOST IN TRANSLATION, writer/director Sofia Coppola lives up to the promise of the potential she exhibited in GODFATHER III. This tedious vanity piece is enlivened only by the charm of its leading man, Bill Murray, and by the astonishingly haphazard way in which the film as a whole appears to have been slapped together. Murray plays… Read More »

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