The Hollywood Bowles

Those who can't write, edit. Those who can't edit, blog. Operating at a loss since 2014.

Tom Cruise spent the last decade teaching audiences exactly what a Tom Cruise movie means. Digger asked them to forget that. That may explain more than anything why Alejandro González Iñárritu’s $125 million-plus black comedy collapsed this weekend, opening to just $8 million in the United States and Canada and $20 million worldwide. It finished …

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Steven Spielberg makes movies the way other directors make promises. “Disclosure Day” begins where the UAP hearings left off. Congress gave Unidentified Aerial Phenomena its bureaucratic name, retired the UFO, and left the harder question unasked. Spielberg asks it. Not whether we are alone, but what becomes of us the moment we find out we …

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