"Chum" in many ways wants to be a play on "Jaws" with nods to "The Meg" on an independent budget. The background location set up is beautiful with Malta (increasingly pushing its film locations) built as the backdrop of a destination wedding between a lawyer and her soon-to-be activist husband. Things are not all right in paradise. But the night after the wedding, their friends rent a catamaran to lounge on the water, and hijinks ensue.

The inset of "Jensei" is an interesting play using a context of today which in other cultures maybe depicts a context of popularity but how the intent of society and time disassembles the reality of staying power is the true barometer. Ryuza Suzuki as the director hand drew the entire film over an 18-month period. While certain parts are low fi, as the film expands especially between certain aspect ratios, it uses the idea of practicality to show a window into certain psyches and disconstructs them in a very existential way

The motivation of the Grogu/Mandalorian connection is one of father and son. While the context of the new movie "The Mandalorian And Grogu" very much integrates that story in a very subtle but also feeling way, the reality is that the series could do it just as well. It is not that the film isn't cinematic. It ups the ante from the get-go, in many ways like "Solo" did. This a more mature and seasoned Mandalorian as well as Grogu. Director Jon Favreau knows this...and in writing this with Dave Filoni, he does understand his characters inherently.

While the trailer definitely created a sense of anticipation specifically around the Johnny Cage character, played with gusto by Karl Urban, the tonal unevenness specifically with the performances still relegates this new entry in "Mortal Kombat II" into B movie territory despite its B+ intentions. Granted the actual play of the Kombat competition makes sense. But in a new world, it is not as simple as the 90s version that was all balls and fury.

Billie Eilish does have a style and approach and, like most artists, she will evolve as she grows older. But the singing style she and her brother Finneas created in their teens has a classical ring that feels at times more like jazz than pop. Director James Cameron somehow found an interesting muse in Eilish and knows enough using his 3D cameras to find a way to capture a concert like you are there and do it in one night.

The integral structure of "The Devil Wears Prada" is understanding the path if not leading the path. The first film, which is 20 years old, spoke of a certain idea before influencers. While the new film doesn't hit that right on the head, it does talk to the digital and click based idea encapsulating modern journalism, even within the fashion industry. The sequel benefits greatly from time because it allowed the characters to live life or reinforce what they are.

The intent of any "Mummy" film is to try to find the angle of perspective making it intense while mixing in certain elements of adventure. With "Lee Cronin's The Mummy", Cronin leans in more to the horror aspect. While he was really able to make the tone work in "Evil Dead Rise" which was wonderfully done, this film more skirts the edge of taste but also what the concept should be.

After establishing the context of the Super Mario Brothers universe, the second entry in the franchise "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" is a lot more cohesive, effective and linear in what it shows since the boundaries (as they were) are now actually set. The progression and thematics are also more specifically based as is the tone. But the second entry, specifically with the story of Bowser and his son, gives it a little more grounded stakes. And yet the best parts of the movie are Yoshi and Star Fox.

The bar of perception for a film like "Revelations Of Divine Love" has to be taken with a grain of salt but also the world and tone it wants to exist in. Its build is based on more of that as a stage play but one with Renaissance stylings at that. The sets are limited but the perspective is not. The story is based on the writings of Lady Julian, an Anchoress in England who befell to a certain illness before seemingly seeing God and became a harbinger of faith.