Though it’s a marketing executive’s dream & the prevalence of IP’s ~overshadows Looney Tunes, ANL: a better film than the original Space Jam – thanks to heartfelt family parable/themes, meta-adventure, villain, CGI, signature LBJ charisma. 8/10.
………
Author: Cinema Lovers Club
Black Widow (2021)
A decade too-late for one of the original [& most forgotten] Avengers.. yet the 4th MCU release in four months, BW is a heavily-clichéd, overactioned, choppily-toned, watered-down spy-thriller with a selling-out Pugh & apocryphal Taskmaster. 4/10.
………
Fast & Furious 9 (2021)
An ignominious prism of avarice, disgrace, IQ-deprived stuntwork, and the now-cringeworthy/heavily-clichéd one-trick-pony theme of ‘family’, F9 continues F8’s legacy in beginning to take a sledgehammer to what Paul Walker & co. built. 2.1/10.
………
Loki (2021)
An enigmatic time-travel detective series with identity themes for the god of mischief and first major villain of the MCU, the decadence of TH’s performance w. felicitous O.W. reciprocity overcomes its stilted narrative & over-comedy. 6.2/10.
………