Tag: Laurence Fishburne

Life is Suffering Most of John Wick 3 takes place in New York. The story travels of course; as seen here, Casablanca changed since Bogart snuffed out the Nazis. …

Never Get Out of the Boat When Martin Sheen and his troops approach a bridge midway through Apocalypse Now, it looks like a Halloween theme park. Fireworks of war …

Chumming with the Cartel First, Earl (Clint Eastwood) just wants a new truck. Then to get his foreclosed business back. Next, to restore the VFW, an ice rink, and …

Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …

Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …

Quantum-fied In a movie universe where the entire planet is under fire from a great evil, it’s hard to shrink down to Ant-Man and the Wasp. It’s fine, flush …

Tourist Trap Empathy is a flaw in Predators. Anyone who dares to show compassion is certain to die on this alien planet, populated by a race of creatures determined …

After space aliens, magic, and time travel were introduced in Marvel’s ‘universe,’ it’s Ant-Man and the Wasp that feels the most ridiculous. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) asks, “Do you …

Kidnapping terrorists? Through the Vatican? Kinky. While absurd, the end point of Mission: Impossible III lies entirely with the Bush era. The corrupted American IMF seeks a weapon meant …

Wabbit Hunting To revisit The Matrix is to revisit Precambrian internet tech. Dial up and CRT monitors, pay phones lining sidewalks and cell phones that look like bricks. Despite …

Wick-ed A sluggish first half then blows up into a head-splattering sequel, not all that different than the first, but with plenty more of it. Assassin John Wick (Keanu …

Pass Chris Pratt’s Jim Preston is lonely. He woke up from hypersleep too soon on an extended journey through space. These are tough times for the technically gifted maintenance …