‘Godzilla x Kong’ Review: Not An X-Cellent Sequel
For the last week, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about a quote from Roger Ebert’s review of the 2003 action film Timeline. Introducing the press screening that Ebert attended, Timeline director Richard Donner boasted how his film featured far more practical effects than you’d assume. The fireballs flung around its medieval battlefields were real, Donner explained, not computer-generated. “The problem,” according to Ebert, “is … it’s not whether we’re watching real fireballs or fake fireballs but whether we care about the fireballs at all.” I can’t think of a more succinct description of...