hollywood
by tim parks
SUMMER MOVIE LOVIN’ 2022
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o far this year, we’ve had some big-budget efforts that have served as a precursor to things to come this summer, with both hits and misses. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum starred in an “homage” — which is French for “rip off,” I believe — of the 1984 Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas vehicle Romancing the Stone, with the eerily familiar plot of a romance novelist thrust into adventure with The Lost City. If you’re so inclined, it’s already streaming on Paramount+. Jared Leto didn’t expect his film to be like his vampire character in Morbius, in terms of it sucking at the box office. While Nicolas Cage played with himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Oh, played himself. My bad. And audiences were also treated to Downton Abbey: A New Era. And then there was this head-scratcher. At age 45, Alexander Skarsgård played son to 54-year-old Nicole Kidman as his on-screen mother. I’m not a mathematician, or quelle surprise, that well-versed in female anatomy, but I think The Northman “may” have taken liberties with that weird bit of casting. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness performed more boxoffice magic for Marvel, setting the stage for audiences to see movies in, gulp, an actual theatre. Now, the ensuing hotter months of the year will feature a plethora of contenders vying for your movie-going dollar, with some flicks that have been pushed back over the last two years. So, if WWIII doesn’t happen, or a new rise in coronavirus numbers doesn’t highjack another season, then this is your look at the summer movies of 2022.
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