Geeky Regards

Space adventure films have been top notch lately. Films like Gravity  and The Martian  take the genre and offer something new. Ad Astra  is the next film in that line, and does the same thing.

Jurassic Park is one of the best movies ever made. The premise was executed flawlessly, and it gave audiences something they've never seen before. The same cannot be said about the sequels, which either offered more of the same or squandered the franchise completely.

Carnival Row is a romantic, urban, gothic, mysterious, steampunk whodunnit with a talented cast and a deep mythology that provides rich stories. The show had a lot of information that it had to get to its audience who knew nothing of the world that Travis Beacham and Rene Echevarria created. It did it masterfully, giving pieces of information that made the story consumable to the masses. It has a lived-in feel, like the first Star Wars  movie did. It feels that this world actually exists, and we are just getting a peek of it.

The Fast & Furious  franchise has been going longer than the Marvel Cinematic Universe , and is still going strong. 2019 brought the franchises very first spinoff in Hobbs & Shaw, a ridiculous action adventure movie that is just pure stupid fun!

The latest Netflix film,  The Red Sea Diving Resort,  attempts to provide a powerful commentary on refugees by taking true events and dramatizing them so they work in a movie. The wonderful cast is the only reason this film makes it to the finish line.

The market is littered with every type of superhero story and comic book adaptation available. You can find one on almost any channel, streaming service or studio that makes pretend for a living. Superhero projects are the modern day western - they come built in with a guaranteed audience.  It used to just be Marvel and DC in the game, but now all types are making their way to a screen. The Boys on Amazon Prime is the latest example of that, and it is unlike anything you've seen in the genre before.

Sometimes movies supersede being merely entertainment and become and event. The Avengers  films are like that . So are Star Wars movies . But outside of that genre, there are only a handful of "event" films. Quentin Tarantino's movies are "events". His latest,  Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood,  is an unexpectedly sweet fairy tale that serves as a love story to 1960s Hollywood.