Tim Basaraba – Is it fair to automatically characterize a film as a hopeless attempt at recapturing the glories of its predecessor? No it’s not. Sometimes the pleasant surprise after our prejudices are upended is eternally rewarding.
Tim Basaraba – A film about cars? Yuck! Do we really need more machismo brought to us via the grease and grime of gearheads? This was my thought going in to Ford V Ferrari, but, knowing James Mangold was directing, I had to put my disdain for the American-motorized-fetish aside and watch with an open mind.
Tim Basaraba – Is seventy the new fifty? With a combined age of over one hundred and fifty years, can battling Brits Mirren and McKellen keep millennials, boomers and every gen-in-between entertained?
Tim Basaraba – Forty-two years in the making, the Story of the Skywalkers comes to its long awaited end with 2019’s polarizing Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. Would all the ups and downs of this space opera end on a unified high note? OR would the First Order nerd schism do battle over its worthiness like the previous film?
Tim Basaraba – Have you ever gone to a film without knowing anything about it? Have you ever started watching a film knowing only its title? That’s what I did with Parasite, and it turned out to be the perfect approach.
