“I have the power!” An iconic phrase that has resonated through pop culture for over 4 decades belonging to He-Man, Protector of Eternia and the Guardian of the Secrets of Castle Grayskull. Throughout the evolving life of the Masters of the Universe franchise, its core messaging of good triumphing over evil to maintain balance in the natural/magical order has always been …
AD ASTRA (2019)
While the cinematic components assembling the film were all beautifully executed in the creation of this deep space save the universe adventure film, it falls short in creating a storyline that makes you want to connect with it. Brad Pitt’s character, while well acted, is hopelessly distant from the audience as emotionless and disconnected from humanity – just like his …
BUMBLEBEE (2018)
The story revisits the 80s (literally) nostalgia from the original cartoon and brings life back to the wonder of the alien robots and their compassion to the curiosity and innocence of humanity, a characteristic lost from the previous spiraling out of control film franchise. Hailee Steinfeld portrays ‘Charlie’, a freshly 18 year old girl still struggling with the death of …
JUPITER ASCENDING (2015)
Lana Wachowski describes the latest Wachowski film offering as a ‘..sci-fi space opera..’ and with a phenomenal futeristic orchestra/opera-like soundtrack, out of this world costume design, a finely-tuned intricate interstellar storyline, and of course an underlying blossoming love story facing the demise of humanity, ‘Jupiter Ascending’ (2015) (starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum) does not disappoint. ★ ★ ★ ½ …
EPIC (2013)
After just finishing previewing Epic (2013), I have to say that it was a very well written adventure story with great character development. The one downfall I felt the writing had was an overuse of ‘hinting’ throughout the dialogue to give insights into the history of the opposing sides of good v. evil – in my opinion, this would have better been …
WALL-E (2008)
Disney & Pixar Studio’s newest computer animated film, Wall-E (2008), is in short a film about human wonder and spirit. The story follows, Wall-E, a garbage compacting ‘clean-up’ artificial intelligence robot with an over-powering sense of self-awareness and wonder which bridges the relatability gap to his audience. Wall-E is very early illustrated as a ‘worker’ robot, stuck in a situation inescapable by …