Tag: Giancarlo Esposito

Megalopolis (2024)

“I’m sure I have missed a whole bunch of opportunities and I am going to miss others, but I caught a lot of them too. In the end it’s about how many I catch, not how many I lose.”

This quote from Francis Ford Coppola is from the film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, a film by his late wife, Eleanor, of just over sixty years (!). If he were an MLB hitter, Coppola would be a slugger hitter. He never would be one interested in just getting on base: He is swinging for the fences…at the back of the stadium.

Tags Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Francis Ford Coppola, Giancarlo Esposito, Grace Vanderwaal, Jason Schwartzman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Megalopolis, Movie Reviews, Nathalie Emmanuel, R, Rated R, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire

3 1/2 Stars Movies

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Post author By Mark A. Lester
Post date August 13, 2023
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My five year old self is dancing in his shell right now.

There is no denying my childhood was impacted by the shelled heroes in green, and I won’t be able to complete this review without reminiscing. They were on at 6:30 in the morning every day before my dad would drive me to day care. Somewhere out in the ether is a photo of me as Leonardo for Halloween (I vaguely remember being upset the swords were not real). I remember countless time playing the arcade game (still one of the greatest arcade games ever made), and watching the live action films (even the third one, which was bad even when I was a kid.)