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Bradley Cooper is back as director/actor in the anticipated Maestro, which looks to be less of a profile of Leonard Bernstein (Cooper looks strikingly like the conductor in the trailer), and more of a love story between Leonard and Felicia, in their lifelong romance. Sure doesn’t hurt that Felicia...
The Last Voyage of the Demeter piqued my interest because it had two of my favorite genres in one: religious/supernatural horror and a tall-masted ship on a voyage of doom. Even better, Last Voyage is based on Bram Stoker’s own well-worn tale of Dracula, evoking images of the classic...
Casey Affleck is so good at portraying a sort of world weariness, the type that looks like it will make you buckle and fall to your knees on a bad day. As Donnie Emerson, he’s a guy that has made a career as a musician with his wife Nancy...
Many navel-gazing indie flicks swirl around a tried and true trope: the urban neurotic, narcissistic, sarcastic, self-pitying, supposedly irresistible man-child that pines about unattainable women, unattainable jobs, and how he is a victim of the universe. You’d think that a cineaste dude like Ben (Justin H. Min) would appreciate...
From the first teaser for Barbie, a winking reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey‘s “dawn of man” opening scene, Greta Gerwig’s big-screen movie of the iconic toy looked surprisingly promising. The marketing cleverly targeted viewers who loved Barbie and viewers who hated Barbie. Barbie (Margot Robbie) lives in Barbie...
Of his infamous deadly creation the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Oppenheimer, celebrated for helping end World War II via the bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, ended...
Funny enough, just last night I saw the season three Ted Lasso episode where Higgins dismisses an erratic billionaire as having the “temperament of one of those kids in Willy Wonka that gets murdered at the chocolate factory.” That made me laugh out loud, naming one of the unspoken,...
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator made Joaquin Phoenix a bonafide star with his scene-stealing turn as the ruthless Commodus, so there has been great anticipation to see what this director/actor duo could do with another infamous historical figure, France’s Napoleon Bonaparte. Known for his relentless rise to power to Emperor of...
When 1969-era Indiana Jones complains that everything hurts, it is clear that he means more than that punch to the jaw, or the bullet hole in his shoulder. Indy is now 70-something (played by a fit 80-year-old Harrison Ford), and his pain is more personal. He and Marion (Karen...
Long proven and respected as a dramatic actress (hello, Oscar winner!), Jennifer Lawrence (as any YouTube surfers of celebrity interviews knows) has a killer sense of humor. Seeing how funny and self-effacing she is in real life (as well as in hilarious, scene-stealing supporting roles in movies like American...
You can never accuse The Flash of not going big. There are multiverses, multisuperheroes, and even multiFlashes. Why have one Batman when you can have all of them? Why have Ezra Miller play Barry/The Flash once, when they can play the same character(s) twice? Why have a single cohesive...
Professional coffee reviewer, I am not… but anyone who knows me knows that I do like me a good cuppa. So, when I was offered tasting samples of some new artisanal blends of coffee to try from Central Perk, could I BE more interested? I think not! “Central Perk?”...
