I should have known better. I really should have. But the artwork caught my attention and I’m a sucker for any movie about killer sharks. But once I saw that this movie was produced by The Asylum, purveyors of cinematic […]
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Sing 2 (2021) ☆ ☆
My wife Barb and I journeyed to a local theater to watch this last month. Barb had finally seen the first one, and wanted to see the sequel. She liked them both. I was not very impressed with the first […]
Continue reading »Don’t Look Up (2021) ☆
I can’t believe it’s been more than a month since I have last posted. Sorry about that. I saw Don’t Look Up about a month ago and I’ve been thinking about it, off and on, for much of that time. It’s […]
Continue reading »West Side Story (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
I’m somewhat biased against this new version of West Side Story because I love the first one so much. I think the music score and songs for West Side Story are the greatest, bar none, of any musical I have ever heard, […]
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Disney studios is diversifying its animation and a prime example is Encanto. Not only is the studio employing a strong Latin flavor, it is telling this story from a primarily female perspective. Sure, many Disney tales are female-centric, but most of […]
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I finally caught up with Soul, the popular Pixar film that explores the near-afterlife in imaginative ways while luxuriating in the joy of jazz music. Soul is yet another recent Pixar adventure to poke around some very profound areas of human […]
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Kenneth Branagh ought to be, and I hope will be, remembered when he is done as a very important filmmaker. While he has been the modern master of Shakespeare films and adaptations, even portraying the Bard in 2018’s All is True, […]
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Angelina Jolie’s second acting job this year is in the newest superhero movie from Marvel, Eternals. This is a film that I think will be divisive for a lot of fans, and non-fans for that matter. It posits an entirely new […]
Continue reading »Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
After a minimum of acting jobs in recent years Angelina Jolie is returning in a big way in 2021. The first of her two films is a firefighting / crime drama rather poorly titled Those Who Wish Me Dead, based on […]
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Many Americans, and, indeed, people of all parts of the world, are fascinated by the British royal monarchy. I am not one of them. I have, in fact, never understood the public fuss about a family that ostensibly leads a […]
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