While the X-Men series of films has ways to go to catch the total number of films in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe for newbies), I assume that the audience for Dark Phoenix is baked in. Othe...
Kifaru, the Swahili word for rhino, is the kind of documentary that can only happen once. The film follows 3 caretakers of the last male northern white rhinoceros, named Sudan after the place whe...
First things first: I’m a big fan of Harry Potter. I’ve always thought the world that J.K. Rowling built was amazing and worthy of devotion, primarily because of its imagination and consisten...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/11/19/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald/
Go for the names, stay for the clothes (and the acting). Ocean’s Eight connects us with Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), the sister of the infamous Danny Ocean (George Clooney from the other Ocea...
There’s a country that exists at the center of the world, that is one month younger than I am. Kiribati (pronounced Kiribass) exists across the equator and the international dateline, so it exi...
I tend to watch documentaries about topics I already know quite a bit (see all the environmental Hot Docs I’ve reviewed previously). However, sometimes the right film arrives and takes you out ...
I watched a LOT of TV in 2017. My movie watching was down, but clearly TV stepped up in its place. Here are some thoughts on the series I enjoyed, and specific episodes worth seeking out if you h...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/01/01/a-look-at-television-in-2017/
Right up front I feel I must say that I am the target audience for the Pitch Perfect movies. I love a cappella and I love movies with singing. Feel free to take anything that comes next with that...
Life is all about expectations. Entertainment is all about finding things to meet those expectations. Phineas Taylor (later known as P.T.) Barnum (Hugh Jackman) grew up knowing people expected hi...
At this point in the series, I’m likely talking to devotees when discussing Thor: Ragnarok. There are at a minimum 4 other movies you’d need to have pretty decent knowledge of to understand m...
There are a lot of clichés that film can rely upon to create characters, a woman fainting to denote a pregnancy, a child avoiding eye contact to demonstrate autistic tendencies. I imagine when y...
I’m not sure you can ever know what it feels like in someone else’s skin. You can identify with certain issues, headaches, a stubbed toe, a bumped funny bone, but you can’t rate someone els...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/05/03/hot-docs-2017-the-quiet-zone/