OK, spoiler alert: in Godzilla, Godzilla is the good guy. Not a good guy, the good guy; he saves the world. And although Aaron Taylor Johnson does some running about where he’s basically wrong-place-wrong-time for 90 minutes trying to get back to Lizzie Olsen, it’s really all about Godzilla and some anatomically impossible, mountain-sized, mega-insects called…
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The Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a glossy re-imagining of how the world of the seventies Sci-Fi tv series – where talking chimps rule the world and humans are dumb slave labor – comes about. This time, a crumply scientist (James Franco) tries to cure Alzheimers and creates a brain potion that’s…
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Brimming over with integrity, kindness, wit, moral outrage and moral authority; a class act. (And that’s just the movie.) Thank you Harvey Milk. For everything, really.
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