New episode of Adults Siblings Versus....has dropped, and this time we look back at one of the most controversial films in all of nerdom; Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Are the prequal apologists right and this is an underrated classics, or is this a barely watchable pile of garbage?
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| Pretty cool poster Too bad about the rest of the film... |
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Another new episode of our podcast, Adult Siblings Versus…, is now up. This week we are looking at the cult classic Sister Act 2, the sequel to the big hit that features a babyface Lauryn Hill and almost no stakes.
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| Absolutely killer pun for a subtitle, though |
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| Because caring about anything is lame and you're stupid! |
Past Lives is the feature film debut of director Celine Song,
a playwright turned screenwriter who also happens to be a Korean Canadian immigrant.
Seeing as this movie is about a Korean Canadian immigrant coming to terms with
their past and the idea of “what if”, it’s probably fair to assume we’re seeing some autobiographical
storytelling here. This movie stars Greta Lee who, after years of being in the
supporting cast, is getting an overdue shot at a lead role.
Here we are seeing another example of East Asian filming
making an impact, as despite it essentially being a foreign language film it is
still an American made one rather than a movie imported from overseas. I really
feel that, ever since Crazy Rich Asians, producers/distributors/Hollywood have
been taking more chances with potentially similar projects. While focusing on a
different culture, my enjoyment of The Farewell is what spurred me to try to
movie out.
I’ve said this since the earliest days of this blog and it’s
still true: I am not always the correct audience for independent films and I
find it often to be a crapshoot over whether I leave the theater feeling
satisfied. This being the work of a first-time director, does this movie show
promise of a new career or should the director maybe stick with writing plays?
Full review after the jump.
A new episode of our podcast, Adult Siblings Versus..., has dropped. This week we looked at another musical, The Wiz. A successful Broadway show but critically mixed, can this African-American show be improved on by adding Joel Schumacher and the guy who directed 12 Angry Men?
No. Sounds about white right.
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| If Diana Ross wats to play Dorothy, she will play Dorothy |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the sequel to the
2018 surprise hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. When I say “surprise hit”
I don’t mean that it was a giant box office hit (it did quite well, though it
started slow) but that it was a game changing animated film. Since then both Hollywood
and Japan have been chasing the style dragon Spider-Verse made famous (Puss in
Boots: The Last Wish, being the most recent example that I can think of). I did
not review the first film, but I did name it #2 of my Favorite Films of 2018.
At the time I said I it was probably the best Spider-Man movie, but
with the benefit of hindsight I think you can make a strong argument for it being
the best superhero movie and the best animated film ever made (even though I
liked Black Panther more at the time).
The original film did well enough that a sequel was
announced soon afterwards. In fact, it was eventually announced it would have
two sequels, making it a trilogy. Unfortunately, it was another Hollywood victim
of the pandemic and delayed by quite a few years, no longer able to strike
while the iron was hot. Even so, with how much it had influenced the movie industry
since its debut, the hype train for the follow-up was still quite strong.
This film was again written by the hitmaker duo of Phil Lord
and Christopher Miller, who also produced the flick, along with Dave Callaham.
This time it was directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K.
Thompson.
Again, this is one of two greenlit sequel with the second,
Beyond the Sider-Verse, being produced alongside this one. The idea of a mostly
standalone film getting two sequels pushed ahead at the same time is reminiscent
of other film trilogies such as Star Wars, Back to the Future, and The Matrix. After five years of waiting, does the Spider-Verse
manage to live up to is predecessor, ala The Empire Strikes Back, or is it a giant
wet fart that should have stayed in the production truck, ala The Matrix
Reloaded?
Full review after the jump.
We've posted a new episode for our lookback at musical films over at Adult Siblings Versus. This week we're looking at the 2002 adaptation of Chicago. We may have both reached for the gun, but the real gun was the friends we met along the way.
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| No one walks out on Roxie Hart! |
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| It turns out John Travolta is the greatest performer of the 1970s! |
