My Take: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) — by a.wei on

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My earliest Star Wars memory involved the vague outlines of hulking metal behemoths, ghostly and ominous, approaching on the horizon. I ...

My Take: Spectre (2015) — by a.wei on

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The unspoken gist of the 007 canon is that each entry is a terminal overreaction to prior entries, a severe course correction by the ...

My Take: Steve Jobs (2015) — by a.wei on

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First, a disclaimer: I’ve read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, the tome upon which Steve Jobs the film is based, over three t...

My Take: Max Mad: Fury Road (2015) — by a.wei on

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Writing about movies can be a wondrous adventure, especially when your research uncovers that George Miller, the seventy-year-old directo...

My Take: Fantastic Four (2015) — by a.wei on

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I don’t feel anger, embarrassment, or even ambivalence. I think what I feel about a movie like Fantastic Four is actually pity.  This...

My Take: Jurassic World (2015) — by a.wei on

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When I was about six years old, I remember going to the theater and watching Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park . I didn’t really under...