******SANDWORM-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After seeing Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Part 2” last weekend, I went into this column realizing that everyone and their mutated baby sisters would also be publishing reviews of the film. So I decided to offer something beyond just praise for this latest epic from Frank Herbert’s 60-year old sci-fi universe, by comparing how…
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A few thoughts on “Oppenheimer” (2023)…
After nearly six months, I finally got around to seeing 2023’s “Oppenheimer” this past week. It’s not that I was avoiding it, it’s just that I haven’t fully regained my moviegoing mojo following the COVID pandemic (I have only seen a handful of movies theatrically this past year, including “Barbie”). Getting my old, arthritic butt…
Experiencing “Black Widow” (2021) at our ad-hoc home movie theater…
Our Pandemic Movie Theater. As I already mentioned in a previous column I did last year (“At-home projection: How I learned to love my movie collection all over again…“), the COVID pandemic put the kibosh on movie attendance for me—and going to the movies was once a favorite pastime of mine. However, a safely-masked visit…