Have you ever been invited to a party? Were you made to feel special or were you one of the substitutes? Were you invited to something you wanted to go to or were you begrudgingly attending to keep a friend/spouse/parent/grandparent happy? In the Disney’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s story, we find a young woman named…
Usually, when it comes to a film’s protagonist, we consider the person who exhibits the most growth, or at least demonstrates the most action on behalf of the individual or others. Since 2003,?Finding Nemo?has been lauded for its artful tale of the titular little fish, netting box office splash, critical accolades, and the top spot…
In the fifteen years I’ve spent writing about media online, only three things have earned me digital (and real-life) tongue-lashings. My proposal that?Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice?is better than?Captain America: Civil War. My belief that?The Shack?explains spiritual truths in a real and powerful way. My admiration for the sometimes bespectacled Rob Bell, former pastor,…
The Department of Justice sends an up-and-coming lawyer, Preston Terry (Selma, Race), and a seasoned investigator, Ashe Akino (Sanaa Lathan, The Best Man?series,?Love & Basketball), to investigate the shooting of a white college student by an African American sheriff’s deputy?in a small, North Carolina town. But their investigation is a tangled web of lies and…
there’s a lot i want to say about Chris Cornell having gone away truth told, it?hit me kinda hard late last week and over the weekend i kinda want to go on at length about how his singing voice was the one for me – at least, one of the ones – and how i’d…
This weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Salazar’s Revenge in the UK) comes out in theaters. The last time Disney released a Pirates movie, it was a bit of a disaster. Or was it? [Note: This review contains spoilers, and was written with the assumption the reader has seen the film.]…
Tom Brady might be New England but David Ortiz is Boston. While the three-time World Series champion might have been “just” a talented designated hitter on an American League team fighting decades of failure to the world before Patriot’s Day 2013, afterward, he was the galvanizing face of a city that stood against terrorism, fear,…
Jack Sparrow is taken, body and soul, to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring upon himself. Stretching on forever. That?s what awaits at Davy Jones? locker. Theologians have long debated the existence and nature of Hell. Tia Darma’s words (meant to explain why she could bring back…
The Curse of the Black Pearl began with a ditty created by?George Edward Bruns and?Francis Xavier Atencio for the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. Dead Man’s Chest early on uses Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dead Man’s Chest” from Treasure Island. Can you build good movies from ditties? I will leave that for the viewer…
Over the last few weeks there has been tons of discussion about the future of the cinematic experience, that is, the practice of watching movies in actual movie theatres (as opposed to the 55 inch/7.1 surround sound setup in your living room. ?The epicenter of said discussion was CINEMACON – the annual?convention where studios tout…
