Tim Basaraba – Is Taika Waititi one of the best, most recognizable auteurs in cinema today? With What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) giving way to the big budgeted Thor: Ragnarok (2017), I would holler a resounding “Yes!” And Jojo Rabbit is no exception.
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?
