YEP YEP – J.J. Abrams must drink an awful lot of coffee. Not only is he a prolific creative force in both film and television, but the guy understands the patience, or lack thereof, of today’s movie-going audience, and he constructs his pacing accordingly. Star Trek Into Darkness is big time high-octane summer popcorn and Red Vine … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Man of Steel, actor of wood, pile of dreck
NOPE – When Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife deliver their newborn super baby, they immediately must make plans to send the tike away from their doomed Planet Krypton. They size up Planet Earth as having a “seemingly intelligent population.” You’d never know it watching this most recent stab at the Superman story. Man of Steel was … Continue reading