I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s first stop-motion animated film, 2009’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name) and while IMO this film isn’t as great as that one, it’s worth seeing. Though I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I realize this type of comedy isn’t for everyone, but I just LOVE this “Pythonesque” humor! Especially this cast. Buscemi, Tambor, Brooke, Palin, etc…. Seriously, have you ever thought that you’d see a movie where Steve Buscemi plays Nikita Khrushchev?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another reason why this is a rare Spielberg dud, is that John Williams, the legendary film composer, didn’t score this film. Prior to this movie, Williams had collaborated with Spielberg on 27 of the 29 films he’d made*. While Alan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it’s because I’ve seen SO many Science Fiction movies & TV Shows, or maybe it’s because I’ve read SO many Science Fiction books and comic books, but it takes a unique perspective, these days, to grab my interest. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I first discovered the Black Panther in this issue of the Fantastic Four. Issue #119 in 1972. I was 11 and The Fantastic Four was my favorite comic series. In this issue, in a story that touched upon apartheid and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve seen the movie, “Star Wars: Rogue One”, you’ll remember how the end of that film, a prequel to the original 1977 Star Wars film, meshes seamlessly into the beginning of Star Wars. Darth Vader is light sabering through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like I mentioned in the comic the movie “Dunkirk” is a perfect companion film to this movie. Here’s my comic review for “Dunkirk” that I saw last July.
Thanks to my years and years of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies viewings as a kid, I learned a lot about what was popular in the years long before my birth. Much of the humor of those cartoons were derived[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of you who don’t recognize the “Fish Fellows” in this comic:
It’s said, that if you have to explain a joke, there is NO joke. So, I probably should explain the joke in this movie review. Actor Armie Hammer, who plays the older lover Oliver, in this film, has just under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…