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JUSTICE LEAGUE

December 1, 2017 By 1 Comment

JUSTICE LEAGUE

JUSTICE LEAGUE is a film with many problems. Some are inherent in an origin-style story that introduces several characters to what the filmmakers hope will be an audience eager to follow their further, individual, adventures. Some are just inexplicable. Take the plot device that is nothing short of asinine, and which I can’t discuss without… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Hellscape, Mother Box, origin story, resurrection, sequel, Steppenwolf, Superman, Wonder Woman

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

July 14, 2017 By 2 Comments

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

There is something heartening in a sequel to a sequel that is as good as the original. Imagine how much more heartening it is that WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, the third in the trilogy that launched with the excellent DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and continued with the equally excellent… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, Apocalypse Now, kindness, natural selection, sequel, vengeance

ALIEN: COVENANT

May 11, 2017 By 1 Comment

ALIEN: COVENANT

ALIEN COVENANT is a mixed bag. As a horror movie, it is unimpeachable, adding an extra self-refractive layer of pleasure to an audience that knows exactly what is lurking there in the giant deserted spaceship that our intrepid space colonists discover. As a vehicle for advancing the meta-story of the Alien franchise, it is far… Read More »

Tagged With: android, colonists, John Denver, limpid eyes, outer space, pair bonding, prequel, 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

LOGAN

March 2, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LOGAN

The standalone X-Men story, LOGAN, dares much with its darkness, and achieves even more by being an emotionally brutal story that relies on character, not spectacle, to pack its considerable wallop.  A tale that is as psychically violent as it is physically so, it is a sharp descant to the earlier films in the franchise… Read More »

Tagged With: albino, chase, mutant, nihilism, parenting, sequel, thugs, X-MEN

BLAIR WITCH

September 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

BLAIR WITCH

Once again college kids with video cameras march into the dark piney woods in search of something better left undisturbed.  Unlike previous attempts to capture the lightning in a bottle that was the original BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, attempts that went down in flames, writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard have taken the found-footage format… Read More »

Tagged With: campfire, found-footage genre, hot dogs, lost in the woods, sequel, stick figure, supernatural, witch

STAR TREK: BEYOND

August 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

STAR TREK: BEYOND

The Star Trek franchise has never been about wondering how the intrepid crew of the Starship Enterprise would save the day against impossible odds. Rather, the suspense has always come from the struggle between hope and despair as they have battled aliens, space viruses, and their own inner conflicts to snatch victory from certain doom.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television series, franchise, marooned, science fiction, sequel, space travel, starship

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

ICE AGE: COLLISON COURSE

July 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ICE AGE: COLLISON COURSE

The Ice Age series has always gone more for the heart that the funny bone, though there is no denying that Scrat’s eternal and Sisyphean struggle both to acquire and to retain the acorn he’s been chasing through the four previous films has, in equal parts, both hilarity and a keen commentary on the noble struggle of humankind against a basically unfeeling universe.

Tagged With: animated, asteroid, dinosaur, one-eyed weasel, Pleistocene, prophecy, sequel

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

June 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE was released here in San Francisco without a press screening. And for good reason. I’m putting The Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation on notice that we might have a new frontrunner for next year’s Razzies. We begin on the eponymous holiday.  Twenty years have passed since Steve Hiller (Will Smith, appearing in this… Read More »

Tagged With: African war lord, alien invasion, Area 51, auditor, bomb, cannons, coma, moon base, President, Razzie-worthy, sequel

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