THE ODYSSEY
By Marc S. Sanders It seems that Christopher Nolan is left challenged by one thing – himself. In less than thirty years this director/producer/writer has moved from the simplest of filmmaking with limited funds (Following, Memento) to enormous heights in bonanza showmanship like The Odyssey, the first movie to be completely shot with IMAX cameras. These devices are expensive…
INTERSTELLAR
By Marc S. Sanders On a rewatch of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar it is no wonder he eventually went on to adapt Homer’s The Odyssey into a fully realized film. The classic sci-fi picture, which draws inspiration from Stanely Kubrick’s work while likely springboarding off of Arthur C Clarke’s and Isaac Asimov’s ideas, is an ambitious undertaking. It’s not Star Wars with lasers and…
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY
Tom Holland’s fourth stand-alone film as the most famous web slinger of all time is his best installment and easily ranks at the very top of the very long list of MCU films. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a movie full of emotion, depth, and conflict ablaze in outstanding action sequences that reach new heights. …
SUPERGIRL
By Marc S. Sanders I don’t understand it. A billion-dollar movie studio like Warner Brothers, with DC Studios, has all of the resources imaginable and nearly ninety years of source material to draw from and they opt for absolute dreck populated with three literal vomit scenes. In the first twenty seconds of the movie, the hero’s dog…
OBSESSION
By Marc S. Sanders Curry Barker is a director that I intend to enthusiastically follow just as I did when Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan were building their astonishing careers. Those guys reshaped the conventions of filmmaking. Curry Barker has done the same by simplifying the horror genre, hiding his subjects in eerie darkness, holding his…
DISCLOSURE DAY
By Marc S. Sanders A day before I saw Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi project, Disclosure Day, I witnessed the aftermath celebration of the New York Knicks’ NBA championship win. People of New York City took to the streets to celebrate. By and large it appeared jubilant, loud and celebratory. However, to no surprise, there was a faction of miscreants…
FIVE EASY PIECES
By Marc S. Sanders Some films simply focus on the internal struggle of a character. There might side component figures, but those are not fully formed because they exist to shape the main character we are directed to observe. In Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese scrounge up several people from a seedy New York City underbelly…
SEND HELP
By Marc S. Sanders The best way to get back at your boss? I guess you could hope for the slim possibility of surviving a plane crash with him. Then he has no choice but to surrender to your survival instincts on a desert island off the coast of Thailand. That might deliver a more effective act…
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)
By Marc S. Sanders You should never expect much from a movie about a hero who calls himself He-Man and allies with guys known as Ram Man and Fisto. If you are demanding too much, it’s not the movie. It’s you. Based on the famous Mattel toy line and after school cartoon of the 1980s,…
ENEMY (2013)
by Miguel E. Rodriguez DIRECTOR: Denis VilleneuveCAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella RosselliniMY RATING: 8/10ROTTEN TOMATOMETER: 72% PLOT: A humdrum history professor seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. Enemy is like a Twilight Zone episode written by David Lynch, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The best thing about it:…
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