Dir. J.J. Abrams. Starring Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega There are spoilers, but can you spoil something that was already rotten? Ha! Ha! Ha! This would be a bad movie even if The Last Jedi had never existed, one reliant on lame screenwriting, quests which are urgent but never important, and a centrist distaste for bloodletting.… Read More Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Dir. Rian Johnson. Starring Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver Spoilers below. If you love bar scenes, then Star Wars is historically a pretty good bet for you. There have been three Star Wars movies which make a Death Star the centerpiece of their plots; there are at least three Star Wars movies which place… Read More Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tom Bateman Spoilers, I guess. It seems seriously unnecessary to do that for a movie based on an eighty-year-old novel with multiple adaptations, but… There are more than a dozen named characters squeezed into a fairly limited space for the bulk of this movie, and I’m not… Read More Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Dir. J.J. Abrams. Starring Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, Adam Driver This is absolutely riddled with spoilers. If you want a review without spoilers, this is not the one you’re looking for. Let’s get this out of the way. The Force Awakens is a good movie. It is not a great movie, but it is significantly… Read More Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens
Seeing Things Secondhand 