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Thor: Love and Thunder Review – The Cartoonification – With Podcast Review
Just as Marvel lays out its Phase 5 slate at SDCC, Thor: Love and Thunder is vying for your dollars in theaters and while many of those Phase 5 films look like true winners, it may well be the extent to which Marvel can distance itself from Phase 4 that determines whether or not the […]
20 Years Ago Today: I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A FILM ABOUT WILCO Hit The Big Screen
On this date in 2002, Sam Jones’ I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A FILM ABOUT WILCO was released in theaters. It came on the heels of the release of Wilco’s fourth studio album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which became a major story in the music business (and for fans) when
‘THIRTEEN LIVES’ Explores the Depths of Human Ingenuity and Bravery in Workmanlike Retelling
It Takes a Village Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard’s dramatic retelling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, takes an understatement approach to heroics, swerving away from the dramatic fanfare and teary-eyed grace notes of a typical Hollywood feature and relying instead on something more workmanlike, cut-and-dry, and almost minimalist. The true story that inspires Thirteen…
Dope Encounters Of The NOPE Kind
Now playing at a multiplex near everybody: NOPE (Dir. Jordan Peele, 2022) Jordan Peele is on a roll. While his second feature, US (2019), didn’t reach the heights of his 2017 directorial debut, GET OUT (a modern masterpiece in my book or on this blog), it was still an
