* Maybe it’s generational. Or maybe it’s just the generic nature of pop culture at any given point in time. Whatever, I’ll never get Marvel Comics movies and zombie cinema. We’re better than this, aren’t we?
* The Elton John movie “Rocketman” is well worth seeing, especially as we get mired in summer cinema drivel. Yes, it has its wince-able moments, but a well-scored, well-staged fantasy-musical-biopic that also deals with addictions will do that. His hyper kinetic, catalytic American debut at the Troubadour in West Hollywood is reason alone to see it. And Taron Egerton is spot on in the lead role. Alas, however, “Philadelphia Freedom,” my all-time, favorite Elton John song, was not included. Yo.