When Star Wars debuted in 1977, it was an immediate revolution of cinema and culture. Audiences voted with their wallets: This is how we want our stories delivered, and these are the stories we desire. Four decades later, Star Wars is less a cinematic … Continue reading STAR WARS IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
The thing that the great genre filmmaking has always done is taken issues of now and told them through allegory and made them palatable for larger audiences. I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks … Continue reading Born On This Day — June 27, 1966
Star Trek Into Darkness begins with an action set piece, dropping the audience right in the middle of chaos. Reminiscent of a James Bond or an Indiana Jones pre-credit sequence, Spock is trying to diffuse an erupting volcano while Captain Kirk … Continue reading STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
Michael J. Cinema 