When a friend asked about ROGUE ONE just after my screening of it, I said, “It’s The Empire Strikes Back, if that movie were a one-off, only ROGUE ONE is darker”…and that’s a good description of it, because this new installment to the franchise, which is a prequel of sorts to A NEW HOPE, could …
The biopic is a very unforgiving genre in the world of movies. Pitfalls inherent to them are the predictably seen timeline from youth to success or nearly insurmountable challenge in the usual chronological order, the whitewashing of edgier aspects of the subject if the film was created with permission, and an ending that celebrates a …
