Both major releases this week are dinosaur-forward, so as usual I'll start with a disclaimer: Any movie with dinosaurs starts at an advantage with me. Take what I say about any dinosaur movie with a grain of salt.
Exciting as this Odyssey is, however, there’s a sadness to it as well, a sense that we're seeing the end of a Golden Age and the beginning of an era of disillusionment brought about through the brutality of war and the flouting of social and civic norms.
The goggled, giggling little goobers who look like ambulatory yellow Tic Tacs are back in Minions & Monsters.
By the standards of big summer blockbusters, this Supergirl is relatively modest in scope, which I found agreeable.
Played by Hugh Jackman, the title character is presented here as a scoundrel, murderous brigand and varlet.
Disclosure Day is a sci-fi epic in the form of a chase thriller.
Tall and imposingly fleshy, Fraser also manages to give us a human Eisenhower.
After the eye-crossing political backstory of the much-lamented Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies, it was refreshing.
Lest anyone suppose that the title Is God Is denotes a pious devotional picture, be advised: not so much.
Jaafar Jackson plays the title role in the biopic Michael. The real-life son of Michael Jackson’s older brother, Jermaine, he's a bit of a ringer for his famous uncle, and he dances with some of the same inexplicable combination of precision and loose-limbed abandon
Many movies are based on the drama that can arise from a wedding. But there's drama and then there's drama, and the drama in The Drama makes what happens in Bride Wars or Wedding Crashers or Bridesmaids or even Rachel Getting Married look like a bridal shower game.
The Marc in Marc by Sofia is Marc Jacobs; the Sofia is Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola, who directed this documentary about the fashion designer. The two are close friends, and the title is a reference to "Marc by Marc Jacobs," the designer's former side line of handbags, perfumes and the like.
The hero of Project Hail Mary is Ryland Grace, who wakes up aboard a spaceship on an interstellar odyssey. The rest of his crew have died in suspended animation, and he gradually recalls that he is the science officer, sent from Earth to gather data from a star that could stave off a catastrophe back home.
Evy hosts a podcast on eerie paranormal subjects. She's the skeptic; her co-host Justin, based in London, is the believer, a la Scully and Mulder. She's currently hosting from the house of her mother, who is unconscious in her deathbed upstairs, and for whom Evy is the sole caregiver.
The movie is a monster, stitched together out of wildly disparate sources of inspiration.
