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Category Archives: Movies
Weekend Review – Godzilla (2014)
If you’re trying to completely submerge yourself from any details of any kind before seeing the movie – here’s the super-short version: Godzilla is back, and better than ever. Continue reading →
Big Screen Batman 5: “Batman Returns (1992)”
The latest chapter of “Big Screen Batman” takes us back 22 years to Batman Returns. You can listen to the podcast here.
Movie Review – “Amazing Spider-Man 2”
Spoiler free version: The strengths and weaknesses of this sequel are comparable to the original. We get more of Spider-Man’s humor, but the structure gets a bit sloppy for an important 20 minute sequence. Recommended, but not as strongly as Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Also, for the first time ever, I’m actually going to recommend consciously looking for the 3D version instead of the 2D. It really does make that much difference this time around.
Big Screen Batman #4: “Batman (1989)”
The latest episode of Big Screen Batman is available here, and covers the live action Batman movie from 25 years ago.
Gravity: Deleted Scene
This item, posted yesterday, cannot wait for this weekend’s Newspace:
Stay until the end.
Movie Discussion: Divergent Noah
In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark.
No, wait. In a world ravaged by human sin, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group.
Or something like that.
This would be the place to discuss Divergent or Noah.
The Walking Dead Review: “Us”
The week after a report loosely connected to NASA was widely interpreted as predicting the apocalypse and one week before our favorite post-apocalyptic show terminates for another season, the survivors make their way to a place that may or may not be safe.
A genre veteran joins the cast. There’s something about Mary….
Weekend Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Some time has passed since we’ve reviewed an older film for Weekend Review, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, the magical realist drama that the Chicago Tribune‘s Michael Phillips called “the most divisive film of 2012,” seems a good choice, with its blend of drama and fantasy and its SF-seeming setting. The independent movie received the Camera D’Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, among numerous other awards. Its star became the youngest person ever to receive the Oscar nomination for best actress. Critics, overall, were positive, and American President Barack Obama called the film “spectacular.”
Others found Beasts offensively condescending and sentimental, or argue that the inhabitants of its off-grid community come too close to the Noble Savage stereotype. Academic/activist bell hooks, whose work I admire, is among those who consider elements of the movie racist and sexist. Cole Smithy awarded it zero stars– a rating it shares with Battlefield Earth!.
So, what do we think?
Big Screen Batman 3: “Batman: The Movie (1966)”
The latest episode of “Big Screen Batman” can be downloaded here. Sorry I haven’t edited it as thoroughly as I usually do, but it’s late (just over an hour before release) and I’m quite sick. Still, I’ve only been late once out of 109 podcasts, by hours but on the correct day, and I don’t ever intend to be late again!