Okay. This movie won’t be for everyone. There. I got that out of the way. If you’re a Jennifer Lawrence fan, it’s definitely for you.
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“Asteroid City” is a quirky little comedy from Wes Anderson. His work is focused on style and exacting screen composition. He favors a shading scheme of calm and collected colors. This time, the subject is 1955 America in the Great Southwest. Back then, the families were close-knit and nuclear. Just like the above-ground Bomb tests, set off in the distant desert. Read more
Everyone, especially young people who need this land to grow on for many years to come, has to get their hands on this and take what it’s saying seriously.
Among other things, the documentary is about Doug Tompkins Conservation’s partnership with Chile and Argentina and how they created or expanded seventeen national parks.
“The Blackening” was directed by Tim Story, a writer, producer and director. He directed, among many others, “Shaft,” “Ride Along,” and Barbershop.” Early on, he directed music videos for L.O.X, Ginuwine, Tyrese, Color Me Badd and NSYNC.
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Don’t get to your seat late! There’s a special Pixar short called “Carl’s Date” about Carl going out on a date, leaving his loving dog Dug behind. But can he? A picture of his beloved wife, Ellie, is sitting on the mantel. Could he move on?
Ed Asner passed in 2021, so this is something special to see, as it is Asner giving Carl his voice one last time. You may have to have a tissue in your hand for this, but you can’t miss it. It’s heartbreaking but also very sweet.
“The Flash” is a superhero character based on the DC Comics universe of fantastical people. The movie discovers a multi-verse of characters and their alternatives. In an alternative timeline, Flash learns that some characters do not exist. And others exist in way that seems unfamiliar. For most of the audience, the face behind the Bat Cowl is a welcome blast from the past…
“Flamin’ Hot” is a story we’ve seen several times before. I’ll admit that this is a new spin on the tale of a man working his way up from nothing with a hot new idea, but it’s a familiar story, nonetheless.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is a Transformers movie about — well, Transformers. What started as a line of Hasbro toys has become a multi-movie franchise. They made the ‘Transformation’ from toy, to Saturday morning cartoon — to multi-million dollar block-buster movies. These are plot-thin and CGI-heavy movies, and are never the prettiest things around. In this case, there is just a small amount of Beauty in these ‘Beasts’… Read more
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is animated follow up movie, based on the 2018 “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”. The prior film was an ‘amazing’ Spider-Man. But now this one is an astounding Spider-Man. The only thing that is holding this movie back is the fact that it is definitely only the first part of a continuing story…
I was so LUCKY to have had an opportunity to see this exceptional documentary and meet the woman behind the story. Yes. This movie is about Space. Director Sandy Cummings gets into hope, too, something that can often be a terrible thing. The film is most certainly about Charity.
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