Captain Marvel Review
I’m still in awe of what Marvel has managed to do over the last decade. When I was little, I used to ask my parents what it was like watching Star Wars for the first time, living through that historic…
The 2019 Oscars: or, An Exercise in Cinematic Cowardice
(Photo credit: https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/green-book-wikipedia-page-sabotaged-after-oscars-win.html) The Oscars getting it wrong – hilariously, spectacularly, unfathomably wrong – is nothing new. Hell, it’s practically a tradition in of itself. Much as I love Rocky, I’ll be the first to admit that it beating out Taxi…
Serenity (No, Not That One, The New One)
(Photo credit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6476140/) Baker Dill: “I need you to deliver me from temptation.” Duke: “What temptation?” Baker Dill: “You don’t need to know.” Last year, it seemed that the whole film world collectively got up and declared Gotti the worst…
Bumblebee: or, How They Finally Got It Right
The Transformers were kid toys; they were literally meant to be played by children. You wouldn’t know it, though, based on the previous decade of movies: long, ponderous, grim, unintelligible, and so, so boring. In recent years, the Michael Bay…
The Mule and the Legacy of Clint Eastwood
When looking at Wikipedia to research this review, I learned that Clint Eastwood is a big fan of jazz. It was one of those moments where, suddenly, a whole lot of things snapped into place. So much of Eastwood’s filmography,…
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