The dead are alive.
This is what we mean by specters. In what is likely Daniel Craig’s last 007 film, we see an immortal James Bond confronted by his entire mythology, coming to terms with his increasingly irrelevant role as an old-fashion spy in a postmodern world. It took four films to do it.
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Batman has always been famous for his villains almost more than the hero himself. Instead of being based on superpowers, these criminals are based on their own kind of gimmicks, some sort of symbolic costume and modus operandi that makes them more realistic than superpower villains, yet more meaningful than the Dick Tracy gangsters they sometimes resemble. Continue reading
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The one unified complaint from Star Wars fans about The Force Awakens seems to be that it spent most of the film paying way too much homage to the original trilogy, mostly episode 4.
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Time flies. And sometimes it falls… with style.
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Is this Battle of the 5 Armies or World of Warcraft?
I‘m trying to count the armies. How do they add up to 5? No bother. When a team of elves arrives with a salad bar on wheels, it’s a trap. As always, I’ll tell you when the spoilers come. Continue reading
I got a little teary-eyed today when I remembered that part in Hook where the little lost boy plays with Peter Pan’s face, takes that grownup frown and tries to force it back into a smile. He sees the happy smiling boy he once knew.
It’s one of the most touching children’s movie moments I’ve ever witnessed. It still gets me.
I understand 24 ended again the other day. Wanna find out how they write their episodes?
You can do it in 24 seconds.
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
Say what you want about the faithfulness of the Noah film to the text. The film is getting more people to read the text itself.
“Benedict Cumberbatch sounds like a jaguar purring into a cello.” –anonymous
Smaug. Smaug. Smaug.
That’s what we’ve been anticipating. In short, he desolated. And so did Peter Jackson. In a few ways. Not all of them good.
