Ricky Miller, Entertainment Editor
| December 29, 2023
This was an admirable year for movies, despite actors and writers strikes because all of these movies were done before the disruption that halted Hollywood production for half a year. This is my Top 10 for the year so far. Late-arriving excellent movies will show up in future reviews...
Ricky Miller, Entertainment Editor
| September 1, 2023
“Meg 2: The Trench” does what it’s supposed to do in giving the viewers a fun, exciting fantasy thrill ride with no holds barred.
Jason Statham returns in the lead role of Jonas Taylor, a gung-ho adventurer whose unsubstantiated claims of a giant fish, actually a megalodon or prehistoric giant shark, turned out to be true. In a nifty throwback, the little Chihuahua named Pippin from the original “Meg” makes an appearance. The sequel put a smile on my face when the dog from the 2018 original was still alive and kicking.
The film “The English Patient”(1996), is based on the novel of the same title by Michael Ondaatje, who was co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize, a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It also won the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2023, a special award established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the prestigious British literary prize. The late Anthony Minghella wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which was produced by Saul Zaentz.
