Here’s are some of the movies worth seeing this weekend, with links to actual reviews.
“The Wolfpack” Documentary about how movies shaped a group of sheltered brothers.
“Southpaw” Boxing film with Jake Gyllenhaal.
“Ant-Man” Marvel superhero film with Paul Rudd.
“Mr. Holmes” Ian McKellen as late in life sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
“Jurassic World” Remake, reboot or revival of dinosaur franchise.
“Infinitely Polar Bear” A tale of mental illness and family with Kenosha native Mark Ruffalo.
Imagine what a film with the word “Jurassic” in the title might be like, and that’s “Jurassic World.”
“Jurassic Park” – four movies and 22 years ago – is a genre classic.
It is so old that it used robots and models for close-ups, but it also was a pioneer in the digital imaging common today.
So common that “Jurassic World” feels like nothing special. The first film had terrifically staged bursts of terror by Steven Spielberg, who also gave us “Jaws.”
The creatures, I wrote were so vivid “you can smell the stench of their last meal.”
My first memory is of reading a comic book on a train.
Whether this is a real memory or one told to me by my parents is unclear. In either case, it happened.
My dad worked at a paper mill and brought home reams of remaindered comics for me, and I later spent my allowance on comics, at 12-cents an issue, at Hackbarth Drugs on W. Villard Ave.
By the time that disposable income was being spent on 45s and albums, my affection for fantasy and sci-fi narrative and its accompanying visual aesthetic was fixed. I was assembled that way.