Tag: Idris Elba

Asking Who We Are – Without Answers Marc Streitenfeld composes a masterful theme for Prometheus. Violins rise, evoking a feeling of wonderment, discovery, and emotional excitement. There’s none of …

Ragnarocking Thor: Ragnarok shows how versatile the Marvel Universe can be. It’s a slew of beautiful colors, wacky action, and importantly, a stream of comedy. It’s hilarious. Despite the …

Jaeger Bomb J.J. Abrams set out to make an American Godzilla with Cloverfield. He did, inventing in a first-person allegory for traumatic national events. Cloverfield recreated 9/11 as Godzilla …

Of Space Witches and Strongmen If Marvel ever tapped Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker – the team behind screwball classics The Naked Gun and Airplane – to write a comic book movie, the …

Not So Towering Idris Elba plays a gun-toting Jesus. Matthew McConaughey portrays a fire-wielding Satan. Dark Tower is indeed that simple, mashed into a teen fantasy. The two leads …

Not Quite Taken The Take is little more than ugly, sensationalist fiction, crass and exploitative as any film of the post-9/11 terrorist era. Its theatrical existence, under the title …

Thank you Sigourney Weaver Coveting Finding Nemo’s message of self-assurance and empowerment, Pixar’s revisit to the ocean is comforting. Mostly, Finding Dory comes to life without significant risk, opening …

Into the Beyond The summer of 2016, where even Star Trek wasn’t well enough to survive. Inundated with visual effects and superfluous action, the story never finds its footing …

Tangled in the Vines Disney’s third live action Jungle Book – following the Jason Scott Lee-starring remake and 1998’s Mowgli’s Story – makes for an ambitious and visually spectacular …

Trekk’d Out Somewhere in Star Trek Beyond, underneath a cavalcade of nauseous visual effects and motorcycle chases, might be a Star Trek movie. Dialog only glances the philosophical (and …

The Animated Utopia Disney may have sunk low with Barnyard and their other ’00 offerings, but Zootopia brings a specific honesty to its anthropomorphic critters. In the depressing fall-off …

No Good Script Some credit is due to No Good Deed for being such a feisty “could be you” film. So much of the movie is doused in paranoia …