Pixar Studios changed feature film animation when they burst on the scene in the early 1990s, and the product that perhaps best illustrates their genius is the Toy Story franchise. The first film was marvelous; the second one even better. […]
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019) ☆ ☆ 1/2
This is another movie based on a book that I have not read, so I cannot compare film to book. I have a feeling that in this case I would have benefitted from reading the book, because the movie bothered […]
Continue reading »Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) ☆ ☆ 1/2
The memory of Tony Stark looms large over this latest Marvel adventures, the first after the Avengers finally dispatched Thanos and reset humanity’s destiny. Now that “the Blip” has come and gone (the five-year period during which half of the […]
Continue reading »Yesterday (2019) ☆ ☆ ☆
Alternative reality stories are intriguing because they offer mirrors to our culture, emphasizing, celebrating or mourning some facet of our society that the storyteller feels needs attention. In Yesterday, the aspect worthy of another look is music, particularly music by […]
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