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Sony swings, misses in comic book film ‘Kraven’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Sony swings, misses in comic book film ‘Kraven’
BY MATT WARD 
December 18, 2024
Cinematic Considerations When people talk about having comic book movie fatigue, they’re probably talking about a movie like “Kraven The Hunter.” It’s a studio cash grab sourced from intellectual property that takes minor secondary characters from much larger films and/or comics and pushes them beyo...
Wild Wild Pacific Northwest
Gillespie Life, Movies
Wild Wild Pacific Northwest
BY MATT WARD 
December 11, 2024
Cinematic Considerations Evoking films like “Dirty Harry” and “The Untouchables,” “The Order” follows a weathered, grizzled FBI agent in the mid 1980s in rural parts of the Pacific Northwest. There, he tracks a string of seemingly-unrelated cases that lead to a fringe group of white supremacists wit...
Ridley Scott aims to recapture magic with ‘Gladiator II’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Ridley Scott aims to recapture magic with ‘Gladiator II’
BY MATT WARD 
December 4, 2024
Cinematic Considerations Since 2001, shortly after his “Gladiator” won the Best Picture Academy Award, director Ridley Scott has been engaged in the prospects of continuing his tales of ancient Rome. More than two decades later — and in large part thanks to nostalgia and technological advancements —...
Wickedly incomplete: Film leaves too much to imagination
Gillespie Life, Movies
Wickedly incomplete: Film leaves too much to imagination
BY MATT WARD 
November 27, 2024
Cinematic Considerations Unless they’ve been living under a rock for the better part of two decades, pop culture fans will certainly know the latest B...
Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ is competent, but thin
Gillespie Life, Movies
Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ is competent, but thin
BY MATT WARD 
November 20, 2024
Cinematic Considerations How much grace should audiences give celebrated auteurs based on their filmography? Movies with big star power attached to th...
‘Anora’ takes on society’s fringes in Oscar-contending dramedy
Gillespie Life, Movies
‘Anora’ takes on society’s fringes in Oscar-contending dramedy
BY MATT WARD 
November 13, 2024
Cinematic Considerations The best films take unlikely protagonists and make them central to a captivating, often emotional tale by developing rich, la...
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