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Ghostbusters (2016) is entertaining. Also flat at the beginning, but overall an entertaining film and an amusing comedy. It is a visual effects heaven. Chris Hemsworth is amusing as the “dumb blonde”. The ghostbuster heroines are believable. Ghostbusters is also supernatural fiction, but in spite of it being fiction, is it saying there’s a supernatural world…

Seemingly insignificant tasks can have a way of becoming useful, perhaps even the main thing. Take the reboot of Ghostbusters (2016). Not many would call Abby Yates mission to prove ghosts exist a real occupation. It may be funded research, but the odds of coming up with the goods appears remote. Aren’t ghosts the figment of…

Ghost Busters was a long time ago. Former cast members of the 1984 original have cameos in the 2016 reboot. Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson all appear. So they put in a new cast this year. It works. Does anyone believe in ghosts anymore? Haunted houses, specters, and visions floating through…

Quentin Tarantino films are experiences. His films are violent, but they are still experiences. Writer and director Tarantino exploded onto the movie scene with the Cannes Festival winning Pulp Fiction. Described as notorious and cutting edge, Pulp Fiction was also described as the freshest film released in 1994. Two years earlier, Reservoir Dogs was released…

Other worldly Warcraft (2016) is that kind of movie. It’s hard to keep up with all the names of characters. Who’s who, in other words. It’s a long time ago when I knew, almost inside out, who actually populated Star Wars though my mother didn’t have a clue. Now, I’m older and any teenage fan…

Alice in Wonderland demanded a sequel. Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016, USA) begins where Wonderland left off. The connection with the past isn’t left there. There’s a whole story about the past. After again escaping the real world, Alice is back in Underland. Her mission is to save the Mad Hatter’s family because the Hatter…

There’s a love story in Beatrix Potter bio Miss Potter (2006; UK). Miss Potter is about the beautiful imagination—Beatrix Potter’s illustrated animal creations, with a story. There’s also a lovely love story in this film. Beatrix and her publisher are at first on working relations. The publisher Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor) supervises her first book,…

Birth of a Nation is here. African Americans in the film industry have been making movies or a career out of movies that deal with racism and racial justice. Their purpose goes beyond making a career, to make an impact in society. October 7 This day is an eventful day at the cinema this year.…

The video game Ratchet & Clank has come to the big screen as a science fiction family animation and is now on DVD. Ratchet is a “Lombax”, with a cat-like face and human body and tail. Perhaps this does sound like the animation equivalent of the half-man, half-beast from Greek mythology. But he’s hardly as…

An accident changes everything for wealthy Will Traynor, a lover of life. Me Before You (2016; UK, USA) is about a life changing event that happens unexpectedly and puts Will on a road of no return. Life altering events have the power to put life on hold for a long time and have an effect on…
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