“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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There have been many part-twos and live-action remakes of Disney films. They don’t usually generate the run to the box office that Disney, and the theaters playing them, would necessarily like.
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The movie opens with a rib-tickling voiceover by Sebastian. He speaks of his family, past and present, and also of Sicily, where he was born.
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“You Hurt My Feelings” is written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, who wrote and directed the heart-warming movie “Enough Said” starring
James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Read more
“Kandahar” is a not really a war movie. It is more like a movie set in a war zone. The main action is set in Afghanistan, near the border with Iran. And then you throw in a little background action in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and you have an entire U.N. of hostile groups ready to rumble. Put a CIA operative into the mix and see what hits the fan…
I was astounded at Eliza Scanlen’s (Sharp Objects, Old) performance as a teen named Jem Starling who’s growing up in a Christian fundamentalist community in Kentucky.
