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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2’s” willingness to do as it pleases turns out
to be the movie’s most appealing quality
A new year may have already started, but the films of 2016 will keep trickling into Rochester theaters throughout the next month. But while they make their way here, I’m still catching up on the massive number of new movies released over Christmas week (eight in total), including “Passengers,” from director Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation […]
If you’re going to pick a film to give the remake treatment, you could do a lot worse than John Sturges’s iconic 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven,” which was itself an Americanized take on Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai.” Holding onto the sturdy plotline of the original, the new film’s major change is injecting some diversity […]
Summer 2015 is quickly shaping up to be the season of the self-loathing, lecturing blockbuster. It was just a few weeks ago that “Tomorrowland” gave audiences a high-flying adventure wrapped in an oddly scolding tone about how the world has grown too pessimistic. Now comes “Jurassic World,” in which director Colin Trevorrow delivers a loud, […]
For the 10th entry in its Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios reaches deep into its character roster to bring intergalactic outlaws the “Guardians of the Galaxy” to the big screen. Though lacking the name recognition of Iron Man, Thor, or Captain America, the Guardians have been around since the late 60’s, with a number of changes […]
