At The Movies

Avatar: Fire and Ash & Marty Supreme


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In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano go on at length about the lengthy "Avatar: Fire and Ash." They have mixed feelings about this latest installment in James Cameron's blue-hued franchise, because they think the immersive 3-D filmmaking results in wonderful action sequences and yet they also think that the dramatic scenes suffer from ponderous dialogue. Marie and Mike also discuss "Marty Supreme," which is anchored by the reliably terrific Timothee Chalamet as a table tennis player in the early 1950s. Although the supremely flawed title character is entertaining to watch as he mistreats everybody around him, too many scenes simply reinforce that point and there are subplots that seem arbitrary.
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