At the movies: Morbius.

 

"They see me like- a brother," the renegade scientist Michael Morbius says, speaking of the giant tube full of bats he keeps in his downtown lab. This despite his having abducted them, muddled with their DNA, and routinely killing several of them in that methodical way that hurts the collective rep of the scientific community. But it illustrates one of the several movie-killing problems at play here, namely an insistence that what is said overrides what is seen. This philosophy is fine for radio drama, but not for cinema. Have a read...

At the movies: Eternals.

 

I liked it. I admire its genial weirdness and where it puts its foot down. This seems like the first MCU film that engages with the tightrope walk alongside ridiculousness all universe-shaking plotlines must undertake.