*****COMET-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Writer/director/producer Adam McKay is known for poking fun at television conventions (“Anchorman”) and politics (his “Saturday Night Live” shorts). With Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” (2021) he takes aim at the current distrust of science and common sense, using a planet-destroying comet as broad metaphor for COVID and climate change-denials. McKay also skewers…
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Thor: Ragnarok… fun, flashy but forgettable.
My wife and I just saw “Thor: Ragnarok” over the weekend. I was (and am) fighting a nasty head cold, but a steady supply of gel caps helped me through it. We couldn’t get tickets to see it in our preferred Dolby Atmos theater (the one with the plush reclining seats), and our second choice…