Avatar: Fire and Ash Review – How to Waste $400 Million

Parody of Avatar: Fire and Ash using the Terrance and Philip still from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

In my review of Avatar: The Way of Water, I called the film “a three-hour Disney ride.” After Avatar: Fire and Ash, I may have been too generous. Rides have clean geography, dependable turns, and a basic sense of where the vehicle is going. Avatar: Fire and Ash is something stranger: a hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars blockbuster that often seems baffled by the ordinary mechanics of narrative, character, and filmmaking.

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Hot Docs 2017 Over on Cinema Axis

This is going to be a short post to draw attention to the eight screeners from the 2017 Hot Docs Film Festival I was fortunate enough to review over on CinemaAxis.  Below, I’ll link to all of the reviews once they’re posted, but for now I’ll just introduce each film and give a quick synopsis.