Directed by Phil Lord, Chris Miller The Lego Movie is all about the hero's journey, that old tale in which an ordinary person is plucked out of reality and told they're special. It's Neo from The Matrix, Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker, all set in a stimulating world like that of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Emmet Brickowski (Chris … Continue reading The Lego Movie (2014)
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The Lookout (2007)
Directed by Scott Frank The lasting image of The Lookout is a luminous, small-town bank straight out of an Edward Hopper painting. Inside is janitor Chris Pratt (not that Chris Pratt), using a mop to shoot urinal pucks into a tipped over trash can. It's a balance between these character moments and a genuinely thrilling plot … Continue reading The Lookout (2007)
Passengers (2016)
Directed by Morten Tyldum There's a home run spike going on in baseball these days, which has been a bit unexpected because of the offensive drought that spanned most of a decade as the league cleaned out most or all of the performance enhancing drug users that defined the early 00's. Whereas you once had … Continue reading Passengers (2016)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Directed by J.A. Bayona Alright, so Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is fine, right? Or maybe it's awful, I'm not sure. I do know what I consider to be wrong with the movie (there's a lot), but I'm not clear on whether any of it matters. Your relationship with a movie is as much about what you … Continue reading Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
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