Movie Thoughts: Jurassic World- Dominion

Too bad Tom Cruise is a cult leader. He’s great at what he does. I never saw the first Top Gun. It was released two days before I was born. My parents had the VHS all through my childhood. It always looked lame to me. Like a love story with…

I don’t know if these movies are fun anymore or if I’m just seeing them out of habit. I wish we would’ve gotten more universes involved in the plot — most of it takes place in either the “main” universe or the Illuminati universe. Pure camp is supposedly the point…

Shot beautifully, another film that benefits primarily from the natural majesty of its settings, as Iceland is the New Zealand of the northern hemisphere —a small, well-run island nation with scenery that’s cinematic and beautiful and alien without even trying. Rolling green, steely skies, smoky darkness, glowing fire. Two butt-ass…

I’ve been a closeted Nicolas Cage fan ever since I saw Con Air when I was in middle school. The Rock, Face/Off — I didn’t care if they were absurd, they were fucking fun and so was he. The man has had a storied career. He’s capable of genuine dramatic…

Sonic 1 was the last mainstream movie I saw before the pandemic. Now here we are seeing the sequel as the pandemic (hopefully) winds down and is replaced in the headlines by mini-World War 3. Product. Another product. That’s what this is. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else. That’s…

This is the first time in a long time I’ve seen a Best Picture winner after the fact. That tainted my opinion a bit. I saw the poster for this at the Michigan theater nearly a year ago, almost bought a ticket. I wish I had. I hesitate to use…

So here we are. My generation’s Batman. Batman’s my age now. Crazy. It’ll happen to you too, kids. The film is dark. Not just in tone and execution, but dark like as in how it’s shot. I had trouble picking things out sometimes. It Broods with a capital B. It…

I had no desire to see this which is why I waited three months. No one asked for this remake. It’s a downside of impossibly powerful A++ list auteurs getting what they want all the time. I’m not alone given this film’s box office performance, the Academy’s increasingly irrelevant praise…