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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Belfast (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
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 […]
Continue reading »Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Ghostbusters was a blockbuster comedy of 1984, with much of its goofy hilarity entering into the zeitgeist soon afterward. It is unconvincing to me that the premise of this new feature suggests that nobody remembers the ghost craze of that […]
Continue reading »Dune, Part One (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
This third cinematic foray into the Dune universe of Frank Herbert is perhaps the most rewarding yet (I saw and liked the 1984 David Lynch film, even it’s excesses; I own but have not yet seen the 2000 TV miniseries). […]
Continue reading »Ape vs. Monster (2021) 1/2
Tonight I watched two newer monster movies. Love and Monsters is quite enjoyable. Ape vs. Monster is almost total crap. Allow me to rant for a while about this junk, and the company behind it. The Asylum has been making […]
Continue reading »Love and Monsters (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
So many monster movies have been made that it is nice to find one with a fresh premise, striking originality and genuine optimism. Such a film is Love and Monsters, which, with its PG-13 rating, is pretty appropriate for adolescents as […]
Continue reading »Halloween Kills (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
The saga of Michael Myers is kind of like the character itself: it refuses to die. From a brilliant 1978 start on a shoestring budget this saga has carried on and survived the badly planned 1982 change of format (yet […]
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