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Trapped indoors for nearly 12 months, terrorized by the maskless hordes and horrified by the government s mishandling of the pandemic, you sort of run out of stuff to watch. But in the age of endless mediocre content creation, one can never actually run out of stuff to watch. Instead, you start to ask yourself whether there s anything you haven’t watched that people seem to like. And that’s how you end up letting your friend convince you to watch dozens of seasons of Real Housewives in the space of a few months. What, exactly, is the appeal of Real Housewives? ....
Pandemic or not, Estefan yes, the son of those Estefans had plans to open a drive-in in Miami ever since he moved back from Los Angeles almost nine years ago, seeing the area s year-round tropical weather and paucity of drive-in theaters as evidence that this was his calling. Estefan became a well-known celluloid maven, proving to studios, film labs, and archivists that he could be trusted with rare and delicate movie reels. His 35mm film endeavors, previously under the name Secret Celluloid Society, reached the Coral Gables Art Cinema, O Cinema, and Shirley s at Gramps, as well as countless one-off pop-ups like the time he partnered with Flaming Classics to screen Disney s ....
Twenty-twenty has been a year of disappointment for all of us except for Jeff Bezos, who gets to make money during a pandemic by exploiting his workers and avoiding taxes. Much has been said about the state of cinema this year and just how much of a disaster releases have been, what with arthouses and multiplexes alike having to close down for the safety of their workers and audiences alike. But this isn’t to say that there hasn’t been a lot of beauty in the world of film amid all the garbage we’ve faced. With all of us stuck at home and new streaming options like the glorious HBO Max and the disastrous Quibi, the lines between what cinema actually is and isn t have started to blur together. Is watching a miniseries the same as watching a movie if you binge it all and there are no plans for a bad expansion? (See ....
When Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman came out in 2017, it seemed to herald the possibility of a new age of comic-book movies for Warner Bros. Though Diana Prince s origin story has been told a dozen times, there was something refreshing about watching Gal Gadot interact with her fellow Amazons and the humanity that lay outside Themyscira especially her chemistry with Chris Pine s dashing Steve Trevor. It was a mostly fun and breezy journey with entertaining action set pieces, despite taking a nosedive in its third act, wherein Diana faces off with Ares. (That CGI monstrosity of an action scene is one of the worst interactions with a god she s had in decades of stories.) ....
There is no greater pleasure in this world than watching Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich team up to deliver a spectacle of action. You could even say the duo are the best coupled director and actor to offer consistently great results in American cinema since John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. The days of Resident Evil films (Anderson directed the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth installments starring Jovovich) are now long gone but certainly not forgotten, as the pair treads into new territory by adapting a new video game franchise: Monster Hunter. Much like the Resident Evil films, Anderson’s work is less interested in mimicking any one game from the Monster Hunter franchise. Instead, it uses the name to create his own installment that takes place primarily within the “New World.” Army ranger Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her compatriots find themselves in this monster-populated new world after an odd desert storm opens up a portal, poorly attempting to survive aga ....