by Stark | Aug 12, 2023 | Movies |
Just when all the noise was dying down, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is back in the news. It is still flying at the box-office, remaining number one in the US. It has, curiously, slipped into second place behind The Meg 2 internationally as the Chinese are going crazy for...
by Stark | Aug 2, 2023 | Movies |
It is not, afterall, a completely Barbie world. Japan appears to not be a done deal after some tweets caused massive offense to the industrious fellows from the East. Warner Bros. Film Group in the United States has had to issue an apology, but the issue seems to be...
by Stark | Jul 25, 2023 | Reviews |
One of you has stepped forward. One of you has made a selfless sacrifice. Arguments were still raging at LMO Towers as to who was going to have to go and see Barbie. We were getting close to agreeing to Shawn T’s suggestion that we play Russian Roulette for it...
by Stark | Jul 18, 2023 | Movies |
The fate of cinema rests in the hands of Barbie. We might not like it, but this is where we now are. The chickens are coming home to roost. Movies are too expensive. Even reliable mega-franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones are performing below expectations....
by Stark | Jul 4, 2023 | Movies |
Happy 4th July! What better way to celebrate the invention of freedom and democracy for the very first time in all of human history, ever, than by looking overseas to see what happens elsewhere. Take the rather wonderful country of Vietnam. An Asian tiger awakening,...
