******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** A pupil leaves the monastic temple they grew up in, roaming to different lands, seeking new adventures, and getting into life-and-death scrapes as their unique skillset is often put to the test. That is the premise of both TV’s “Kung Fu” (1972-1975) and the new Disney+ Star Wars streaming spinoff, “The Acolyte.” And…
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A glimpse into Disney+’s new Star Wars series, “The Acolyte”…
******JEDI TEMPLE-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Recently, I wrote a column about what it was like to be a young “Star Wars” fan in the late 1970s. Just writing that column was a sentimental trip that awakened all kinds of childhood nostalgia. But part of growing old with a franchise like Star Wars is watching it evolve over…
“The Matrix Resurrections” (2021) takes aim at needless, corporate-spawned sequels…until it becomes one
The Matrix Re-Skinned? *****SOME SPOILERS***** Full disclosure: I am not the biggest fan of “The Matrix” movies. To some readers, that may sound blasphemous, but it’s true. I reasonably enjoyed the first film, though it seemed to borrow much of its style (over substance) from Japanese manga/anime (particularly 1995’s “Ghost in the Shell”–which itself was…