Oh, your hair is beautiful
Ah, tonight
Atomic
We're off on the road to cultural acceptance, and the goalpost there seems to be in a generally allosexual reckoning. (Sure hope I've written enough for that to make sense!) Strange how this feels less... consequential than any of the brothers' "inconsequential" stories, which gives it a pleasant "intermission of life" feeling that those other stories don't have? A funny story that happened to you one time, one that you keep coming back to--but not something you'd necessarily put on…
An Iranian filmmaker, long ago displaced by war, somehow gets his hands on a flag-jerking slimeball of a Hollywood movie; his sequel begins with an American drone blowing the hell out of a Pakistani wedding. Olympus has been reconstructed, and the lesson was to take the moniker as literally as possible, to chuck thunderbolts from on high. It's a curious, and nauseating, and natural extension of Olympus Has Fallen and its weird genericisms. Benjamin Asher is no longer an anonymous…
In something like Gravity, Cuarón's hopeless images are downright ludicrous--but here, they're long overdue. Harry's reintroduction to this world is at once haunted by that screaming mugshot of Sirius, which hands off to the Dementors in their all-consuming dread--and Cuarón lingers on the lightning scar a lot more than Columbus ever did. Even the brief ride on Buckbeak, himself "the Condemned," is treated like an exhilarating brush with oblivion. Prisoner of Azkaban is Harry Potter as directed by Professor Trelawney:…