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JASON BOURNE

July 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

JASON BOURNE

I’m put in mind of tea leaves.  Good quality tea leaves that have rendered such a wonderful cup of tea that you wonder if maybe, just maybe, there’s enough of their essential, unique quality left to take one more infusion to make a cup as good as that first one.  And so it is with… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, cybersecurity, digital privacy, driving angry, espionage, franchise, Las Vegas chase scene, sequel

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

May 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN APOCALYPSE is as big and bold as a special effect-laden action-adventure flick should be. It’s also audacious enough to make the story about more than leveling the planet or finding new ways to decapitate people. As with the best in this series from the Marvel Comics universe, the real enemy is the lethal combination… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, ancient Egypt, franchise, Marvel Comics, mutants, origin story, sequel

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

March 25, 2016 By 5 Comments

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

For most of BATMAN V SUPERMAN’s bloviated pretension, I was merely bored. This half-baked idea studded with ponderous pronouncements, shockingly sedate action sequences, and the simulacrum of serious philosophical inquiry plodded along, weighed down by an overstuffed plot and an underdeveloped narrative. But when we arrived at a meticulous recreation of the deposition from the… Read More »

Tagged With: bathtub splash and tickle, comic book, DC Comics, franchise, Justice League, nightmare, superhero

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

December 16, 2015 By 1 Comment

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

What you really want to know is whether or not J. J. Abrams has worked his magic and saved the Star Wars franchise. The answer is not just yes. But, rather, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is perfection. That is all you really need to know and, while I will not do this film the disservice of lessening… Read More »

Tagged With: death star, franchise, jedi, out space, sequel, Star Wars

SPECTRE

November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPECTRE

There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude.  In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely… Read More »

Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

July 31, 2015 By 1 Comment

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION is lean, mean, and seriously fun. There is not a wasted moment for fans of high-energy, slickly plotted action flicks of the popcorn variety, as this installment of the franchise finds the Impossible Mission Force shut down by the government, but not out of business. Not by a longshot. Their last official… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Alec Baldwin, conspiracy, franchise, Jeremy Renner, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION, narrative, sequel, shadow government, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise

TERMINATOR SALVATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR SALVATION

For all the explosions, gunfire, firestorms, and manly gnashing of teeth, TERMINTATOR SALVATION has an overriding weariness to it.  The franchise, while robust box-office wise, has essentially been telling the same story now for a quarter of a century. A tale of time-travel, murderous cyborgs, and a father born decades after his son’’s conception is… Read More »

Tagged With: franchise, future, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1

It might be hard for someone unfamiliar with the Harry Potter universe to catch the nuances of HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1. Fortunately, the larger themes are intact, despite some liberties taken with the chronology of the books and the usual necessity of streamlining a richly plotted novel into a workable screenplay.… Read More »

Tagged With: fascism, franchise, hallows, Hogwarts, magic, Order of the Phoenix., sequel

Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore & Dania Ramirez on X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore & Dania Ramirez on X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

There is something a little superhuman about Anna Paquin (Rogue), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), and Dania Ramirez (new character Callisto). After a wake-up call that came before dawn and a full day of interviews, including one on a cold and windy pier overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, they were still full of energy and psyched to… Read More »

Tagged With: Callitso, cinema, fantasy, franchise, Golden Gate Bridge, Iceman, movie, narrative, peer pressure, press tours, Rogue, Sci-fi, science fiction, sequel, X-MEN

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