Sunshine Superman
Crit
The ostensibly inspiring story of Carl Boenish, pioneer BASE jumper, which is to say jumper from buildings, antennae, spans, and multiple high outcroppings from Earth, his penultimate of which, with his wife, Jean, set a record for the highest such successful jump, his last of which, a day later, solo, was fatally unsuccessful.
Key word "ostensibly." I admire the pursuit of worthwhile efforts for which I lack the requisite intelligence and/or physical capability and/or sand, and I would class BASE jumping among those pursuits, but frankly, Boenish seems to have been a manifestly silly man, and his death--on a jump he had established days before was undoable--seems to have been effectively if not literally a suicide.
Spy
Crit
Well, yes, this is as consistently hilarious as advertised. I have just one thing to say: Jason Statham: who knew?
Trailers
- Paper Towns--Yet another potentially excellent film based on a YA novel.
- Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation--Yeah, whatever. Actually, looks fun.
- Trainwreck--I'd read about this and wasn't sure I approved, but I laughed more at the trailer than at some feature ostensible comedies, so . . .
- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--Sequel to something I never considered seeing.
- No Escape--Owen Wilson and Lake Bell in a thriller.
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