And since Mr. Honig's family members are, in a roundabout way, Mr. Berliner's, the movie enters into a generational dialogue with this filmmaker's ongoing project in cinematic genealogy.
Modern Mondays is another ongoing forum fostering cinematic innovation and experimentation, Modern Mondays invites artists working in the expanded field of film, video, performance, and sound to present their work in an intimate setting.
What could have been an embarrassing misfire hinted at by the movie's misleading trailers is instead a smoothly distilled collaboration that balances Mr. Tatum's heat and charm — and ambitions that are as transparent as Mike's — with Mr. Soderbergh's cool, cinematic intelligence and ongoing preoccupations".
And the numbers themselves, at least in some circles perhaps predisposed to backlash against the ongoing success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, are a tad disappointing.
It doesn't seem at all comfortable, this juxtaposition of an ongoing process of justice against a cinematic confection.
After the Steve Zissou quadrilogy and the ongoing expansion of the Fantastic Mr Fox cinematic universe, we've all come to think of Wes Anderson as the man with the slightly clammy Midas touch.
Rogue One's success could be vital for those hoping that the cinematic universe model is the answer to Hollywood's ongoing creative dilemma: the commercial imperative to keep giving audiences what they want, but the avoidance of endless sequels and remakes.
"The ongoing wow is happening right now," says a character in Waking Life, a cinematic Russian doll of dreams within dreams, in which each case pops up to reveal another layer of mystery.
What's surprising, however, especially in this era of cinematic universes, is that no one has yet come up with a workable framework for an ongoing swords and sorcery saga – a fantasy answer to the Marvel movies, or the work that Disney-owned Lucasfilm is currently putting in to expand the Star Wars universe, with a new film proposed every year.
