Saturday, April 20, 2024
Disclaimer: While not graphic, this article discusses PG-13-rated films. Younger readers please read at your parents’ discretion. When Peter Jackson released his Lord of the Rings movie trilogy in the early 2000’s, Christopher Tolkien recorded his consternation over the adaptation of his father’s work by stating, “The commercialization has reduced […]
“Let’s do things differently this time. So differently,” Gwen Stacy preambles before plunging the audience into a slog of teenage-spider-woe. Whether the words were an intentionally prefaced film theme or just a spinoff of the opening lines of the first movie, Sony’s recent production of Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse does […]
One would not expect an animated tale with a ten-foot obese baby, a bobblehead witch who runs a bathhouse, and masked, formless, faceless beings to resonate across a broad audience; yet each member of my family of movie connoisseurs, with all of our opposing opinions on film, appreciated the Studio […]