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I don’t tolerate family feuds well. Family feuds seem to be the stock material of soap operas from Dallas to Days of Our Lives. They were never my kind of thing. Perhaps the most smoldering family feud on screen is in Ordinary People, where feelings had been buried to be expressed on another day. Ending…

Brexit has caused a sense of anxiety around the globe since Friday, on the same day of the release of the sequel to Independence Day. It makes for uncanny timing. People are uncertain about the future, again, like the characters were in Independence Day (1996, USA). A culture of uncertainty in Independence Day The U.S.…

This week I’ve been to China–sort of. In The Assassin (2015, Taiwan) it’s China around the seventh century. In this story, the Chinese dynasty wants to maintain power over rebellious provinces. Nie Yinniang is an assassin for the dynasty. A bird often symbolizes freedom, but Nie Yinniang is torn between assassin’s duties and personal connections…

Another view of X-Men Apocalypse… Oscar Isaac played the original mutant/god En Sabah Nur in X-Men Apocalypse (2016, USA). In 2015, Isaac played a couple of characters with less than god-like powers, though coming close to that. He played a top-level pilot for the resistance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Poe Dameron is flawed…
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