"The Ballet of the Red Shoes", a 15 minute dance sequence, took six weeks to shoot and employed over 120 paintings by Hein Heckroth. The dancing newspaper was achieved through careful cutting and use of wires. And they used a corps de ballet of 53 dancers. I hear all of that before seeing and worry if this will look and feel more theatrical or more cinematic. You just kinda hope it is as interesting as d. It more than delivers…

The JJ Abrams visual style has gotten more nauseating as I've aged. Star Trek, Star Wars, all aging not well for me because there are times when I don't want to watch scenes with that handheld Subway sandwich of a camera (derogatory). It's unfortunate because generally I think he is pretty good at fitting into existing franchises. There's a lot of components about this one that are awesome, but revisiting this had me looking away during the action scenes, which…

Corona SZN #94

There is a deep political subtext in this movie as it pertains to the Paul character (played by the wonderful Delroy Lindo), the Vietnamese perspective of the war, the Norman character (played by a great Chadwick Boseman), and the archival footage dispersed throughout this film. What I want to talk about is the frequent use of Marvin Gaye's songs from his album What's Going On.

We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer…