Infinity Wars

SPOILERS THERE WILL BE SPOILERS**********************YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED********************SPOILERS AHEAD***************************BEWARE THE SPOILERS*******************************************             It doesn’t require much analysis or a degree in English literature to understand that the theme of Infinity Wars is sacrifice. Every reviewer has nailed that on one but I think a number of those  reviews have missed the deeper point. They ultimately all end...

Timeless — More Time Travel For Your Viewing Enjoyment

There is actually a network show that I’m quite enjoying.  TIMELESS on NBC.  It’s time travel crossed with conspiracy theory, but it’s also a mini history lesson in every episode.  It has an appealing cast particularly Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, Malcomb Barrett as Rufus Carlin and Goran Visnjic as Garcia Flynn.  There is the obligatory square jawed hero guy who is okay, but he less interesting then the three I mentioned earlier and also less interesting than the supporting cast. Our...

Star Trek: Discovery

I hoped but I feared.  Then I watched and my fears were realized.  While Star Trek: Discovery looks beautiful I found the teasing first episode to be disappointing.  Not horrible just not good.  A friend of mine who also works in the industry had the perfect word that incapsulated all my problems with the show. It’s lazy.   *************************SPOILERS****************SPOILERS***************SPOILERS**************SPOILERS*******   The writing is lazy with terrible on the...

Airplane Movies

I thought I take a break from organizing photos and trying to capture the wonder of my trip, and talk about the two movies I watched during the long flight back to Los Angeles.  And yes, there will be SPOILERS so please nobody have a MELTDOWN OVER THE SPOILERS.   As most of my readers know I love Tom Hiddleston.  His range from Loki to Jonathan Pine in the brilliant miniseries The Night Manager is extraordinary.  So I wanted to see KONG: SKULL ISLAND because he was in it.   I had missed...

The Musketeer (Wait? What? Aren’t You Missing Several of Them?)

There are going to be spoilers in this post, but if you take my advice you won’t watch this movie so it won’t matter.  But YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED — SPOILERS AHEAD! ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I made the mistake of watching part of The Musketeer while I ate dinner. Oh Lordy (my new favorite phrase thanks to Mr. Comey) what an awful mess. This...

When Less Is More

This is going to be a post about GUARDIAN’S OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 so there will be SPOILERS!!!!!  SPOILERS!!!!!  SPOILERS!!!!  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.     I like most of the Marvel movies.  I really liked the first Guardians movie.  I liked Ant Man.  I adored the first two acts of Captain America: The First Avenger.  I liked Thor because of the fascinating family dynamic and charismatic villain.  The first Iron Man film.  Winter Soldier.  Are you starting to see a pattern here?...