6/10

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Hooray, it's...resoundingly adequate! :| While it's easily the "best" FF movie to date, clearing the low bar of the Roger Corman cheapie, the pair of lame-assed 2000s Fox entries and Fan4stic is not ...

And the movie will be available on VOD a few weeks after opening (no matter how much Nolan will complain about it.)

They actually tried to rectify that middle finger in this movie but as MJ noted it was shoehorned in and didnt make much sense (or have any payoff either).


Speaking of a middle finger...what do you guys make of them retconning the Rabbit's Foot from the third movie to now be something extremely ...

Interesting...I know very little about Scientology and always just assumed (incorrectly perhaps) that any religious symbolism in his movies would be tied to Scientology. Is that what it teaches???


I don't know much about Scientology either but I doubt any of the symbols I mentioned would have ...

I gave the movie 4 ½ stars. Here’s my letterboxd review.

https://letterboxd.com/johnkholm/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/

The entire movie has an apocalyptic tone and is filled with religious and mythological imagery. All of humanity is threatened with extinction by an evil entity ...

I just watched the TV movie Sweet Sweet Rachel, which served as a sort of pilot for this show, (with a different cast) a few months ago.

Not to ask a dumb question, but I barely pay attention to the MCU anymore. So the new Avengers movie that the Russo brothers are shooting, is the cast supposed to be the characters from Thunderbolts? Or a different team? Is there going to be a New Avengers and an Old Avengers? Seems bizarre that ...

Also, Happy Birthday, Eric! (Just saw the notice at the bottom of the main page.)

Gross out F/X have always been a turnoff for me. The melting Nazis traumatized me in Raiders as a kid and that's why I never saw another Indiana Jones film (especially after I read about the violence in Temple of Doom). I have never seen Carpenter's "The Thing" and have no desire to along with the ...

More proof (as if we needed any) that the Russo brothers have no actual talent other than convincing studios to give them money.

Like I've said before, if this is "Star Wars for adults", stick a pacifier in my mouth.



It drives me crazy that some people associate things like fun, hope, adventure and optimism with childishness while doom, despair, darkness and violence are equivalent to being an adult. And it's especially ...

I want to see the Latvian animated movie Flow, which got two nominations. It just showed up on VOD platforms.

Lynch is the only director of "weird" movies that I enjoy. There was something about the way he could combine image and sound in ways that were surreal, perplexing and astonishing. No one else could do "weird" like him. My favorite works of his are Twin Peaks , Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man ...

I find the Narnia books to be...OK. I quite enjoy T he Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe , find Dawn Treader pretty good but can barely remember most of the others. I've never read The Magician's Nephew or The Last Battle . My pastor would be mortified if he knew. There's barely a Sunday goes by ...

Dumping out my remaining Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops specials with this rather odd Thanksgiving concert from 1999 with special guests John Schneider and Richard Thomas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTcUzcnreo


Odd to be sure but refreshingly sincere and uncynical. I enjoyed it. Thanks for ...