Cinematic Flashback: Avatar (2009) Review
The Sky People have sent us a message…. that they can take whatever they want. That no one can stop them. Well, we will send them a message. You ride out as fast as the wind can carry you. You tell the other clans to come. Them Toruk Macto calls to them! You fly now, with me! My brothers! Sisters! And we will show the Sky People…. that they cannot take whatever they want! And that this…. this is our land!” as Jason’s Movie Blog takes a trip back to the world of Pandora for the latest “cinematic flashback” of the sci-fi adventure blockbuster of 2009 Avatar.
AVATAR
“Enter the World”
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver
Run Time: 162 Minutes
Release Date: December 18th, 2009
Rated: PG-13
THE STORY
In the distant future, when
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Official Trailer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Official Trailer
It’s time to head back into the “Spider-Verse” as Sony Pictures releases official trailer for the upcoming animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. View trailer below.
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redifine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
I was wondering when the new trailer for this movie was going to be released. Following the success of the 2018 film, I was quite curious to see what Sony was going to do with this particular animated property, with a sequel being planned for sometime in the future. Well,
She Said (2022) Review | Jason’s Movie Blog
“WILL YOU GO ON THE RECORD?”
As many theatrical feature film endeavors have delved into fictional arena to find its narrative storytelling, others have taken strides into the more “real world”, with various accounts (albeit through a cinematic filmmaking lens) of depicting / examining lives and events of world and how sometimes the truth (the real truth) comes to light, which has been overlooked and / or suppressed due to its implications surrounding it. Taking on big corporations, exposing a hidden truth, or revealing an unspoken revelation, these narratives ring true within their dramatic storytelling, which is aided by its “based on a true story” framework, adding credence and palpability within its tale. Of course, Hollywood (over the years) has taken an interest in these narratives; producing such films like Zero Dark Thirty, Spotlight, The Report, Vice, Concussion, Dark Waters, and several others. Now,
Spectrum.internet TV And Movie Ratings With Descriptions
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) says it will take into account on-display smoking in its film ratings system.
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TILL: TRANSCENDING THE OBVIOUS
I wasn’t looking forward to seeing Till and being reminded of the horrific fate that befell a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi back in 1964. I hadn’t reckoned with the worldview of director and co-writer Chinonye Chukyu, who chose not to depict Emmett Till’s unspeakably violent death and decided instead to tell the story through the eyes of his mother Mamie. That doesn’t mean that we are spared the horror of Emmett’s brutal treatment. Till depicts his mother’s decision to hold an open-casket funeral so the world could see for itself what hatred brought about in the Jim Crow South. I wasn’t overly impressed with Chukyu’s earlier feature Clemency, but this film is a quantum leap forward. The director shares writing credit with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp. She takes…
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