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2 1/2 Stars

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.

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4 Stars Movies

Stargirl (2020)

Truth be told (which I know I must do, especially after last week’s review), I had no real intention to review Stargirl.

My only interest in the film was that it starred former America’s Got Talent winner Grace Vanderwaal, who I admit to being a fan of a few of her songs. Add in the fact that this is the 16-year old’s first film and it is safe to say that I had cause for alarm.