The 2024 Salem’s Lot adaptation feels like a heartless rendition of Stephen King’s classic novel. While it nails the 1970s aesthetic, evoking a sense of nostalgia and atmosphere, it ultimately falls short in delivering a compelling and memorable horror experience. The vampires are suitably creepy, offering a few unsettling moments, but the film struggles to make a lasting impact beyond that. The pacing is uneven, and the characters lack the depth needed to truly engage the audience. Unlike the 1979…
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Obi-Wan Kenobi 2022
The best parts outweigh the cringe parts. McGregor carries another Star Wars outing with ease. Lola the droid was cute. Liked the relationship between Kenobi and Leia. The duels between Vader and Kenobi are a good bookend to the elderly Guinness/Kenobi laying down his sword in the 1977 film. Serves as a reminder of how formidable he ranks in Jedi lore.
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
A textbook example of classic American sentimentalism that valiantly attempts with moderate success to refocus a hyper cynical generation from being fatigued by globalism, culture wars, and institutional decay towards a not too long ago past in the halcyon days of the 1980s; arguably the decade living Americans over the age of 50 would agree was the last time things felt sane in this country. How much of that paternal security (real or perceived) was due to the living presence…
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Oppenheimer 2023
I wanted to like it. Tried to like it more than I did but Nolan is proving to be a little bit of a hack storyteller. The best acting scenes were crowded out with Hans Zimmer. Yeah, Murphy is fine as the lead and the first half was good leading up to the Trinity test but then we get bogged down in a snore inducing political drama that snaps back and forth between accounts of all the main characters and…
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