Watched one of my favorite comic fantasies—again! Bill Murray was still in top form as the self-absorbed weatherman and Andie MacDowell perfect as his unobtainable producer. Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin get six stars for their screenplay, Ramis six for direction as well, and, as I noticed this time, for…
Fun, but uneven, adventure. Psychedelic jungle flowers and all the animated sequences and characters could have been eliminated and made the movie stronger.
Fine Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland collaboration. Starts by positing a scientific basis for witchcraft and time travel and goesn on from there.
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George thriller. Very engaging drama of a fanciful Iraqi scheme to build bio-weapons near an Iowa university. Equally interesting is the government compartmentalization that tries to avoid discovering what’s going on.
Clever twists on the Oz legacy. Fine performances, but the songs did not reach the Andrew Lloyd Weber level of musical legends.
Totally entertaining romantic comedy of a down-and-out musician who slips into an alternate reality where he seems to be the only one who’s heard of a rock band called the Beatles. Now he’s the hottest songwriter on earth.
Edward and Bella wed and manage to conceive before the fast growing baby forces her to become immortal. Fun plot twists and YA romance.
Laini Taylor romantic fantasy of a lost magical city and a librarian obsessed with its rediscovery. This creative celebration of imagination and conflicted relationships was entertaining while a bit uneven in its compelling versus repetitive elements.
Fun but predictable live-action remake. Will Smith gets all the kudos while the musical numbers, other than his, are flat. Will’s genie was worth the ticket price.
