Brian's Thoughts on Movies

 "Never hate your enemies.  If affects your judgement"  Michael Corleone to Vincent About a year ago I wrote a review on The Godfather Part III which was mildly positive based on the strengths of the leads and the portion of the storyline that focused on Michael’s attempt to atone for his crimes.   However, I have long felt overall a sense of disappointment in the film as it is disorganized, overlong, and asked the audience to invest in an incestuous relationship.   The film felt a little rushed as it had many interesting ideas but was not terribly well put together. Last year director Francis Ford Coppola (who also cowrote all three films with the late Mario Puzo, who wrote the original novel-which is one of my favorite books) announced he would be releasing a cut entitled Mario Puzo's The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone for the film’s 30 th Anniversary which was his original choice for a title.  This version would restructure the film and focus a littl

 "Can I interest you in a Whopper?  You can get it to go if you want to eat it in your car and cry" Burger King employee to Marcus. If you have read my review of Marvel Fourth Batch you will be aware that I found Randall Park hilarious in Ant Man and the Wasp.   His comedic instincts and interplay with Paul Rudd elevate that film above the first Ant Man for me.   I have never seen his show Fresh of the Boat but enjoyed have heard that it is entertaining.   After seeing a clip of the Netflix film “Always Be My Maybe” my wife and I decided to give it a look and were very entertained.   The recent despicable increase in attacks on Asian Americans in the country (spurred on in no small part by racist comments by the former president who was looking for a scapegoat for the Covid-19 virus) made me want to spotlight on this film, which like Crazy Rich Asians has a nearly entirely Asian American cast and was also written by its stars, the aforementioned Randall Park and also Ali W