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AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

April 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

For sheer value-for-money, you can’t top AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.  It’s pure entertainment with an endless parade of the kind of whiz-bang special effects, not quite sloppy sentiment, and a constant barrage of the quips and banter that define grace under pressure in the Marvel Universe. Plus, pretty much everyone from the MCU finds his or… Read More »

Tagged With: Avengers, cliffhanger, Cloak of Levitation, crossover, Infinity Stones, Malthus, Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

May 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR asks the cinematic question “What would happen if we took a whole passel of superheroes from the Marvel Comic universe and tossed them together into one film?”  But wait, what if we pitted them against one another over a fundamental difference of opinion about ethics, and then added a dash (or… Read More »

Tagged With: accountability, global politics, guilt, loyalty, Marvel Comics, sequel, superhero

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

October 29, 2015 By Leave a Comment

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS is an oft told tale of political machinations played in the vacuum of the zero-sum game that is the electoral process in modern times.  In it, we are reminded, candidates are products, issues are what the spin-meisters dictate, and the public is there to provide the score card used by which… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bolivia, election, political consultant, politics

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

January 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

Mike Binder has a particular genius for showing people brimming with good intentions, but flawed, stumbling through life without the operating instructions that would help them negotiate the bumps along the way. He has the gift of showing humor and pathos as elements that are not so much disparate, as entwined, manifesting at oddest moments… Read More »

Tagged With: African-Amerian, Andre Holland, Anthony Mackie, based on a true story, biracial, cinema, courtroom, custody battle, drug addiction, film, Gillian Jacobs, Keving Costner, lawyers, Mike Binder, movie narrative, Octavia Spencer, Paula Newsome, race relations

THE HURT LOCKER

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

THE HURT LOCKER

Among the many arresting images in THE HURT LOCKER, the one that may be the best at putting the audience in the position of the American army bomb squad fighting a futile war in Iraq, is also one of the most quiet. It’s during what started out as a routine mission to gather up bomb-making… Read More »

Tagged With: Anthony Mackie, army bomb squad, bomb defuser, Iraq War, Iraqi Occupation, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, narrative, THE HURT LOCKER, war

NGHT CATCHES US

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There is in every frame of NIGHT CATCHES US the vivid, demanding presence of the past that is more than just being set in the Philadelphia of 1976. Writer/director Tanya Hamilton uses close-ups of her stellar cast as they pause in conversation with one another and, as they gaze at one another, or into an… Read More »

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The particular brand of unhinged paranoia of which Phillip K. Dick was a master, and then some, gets a respectful treatment in THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, based on one of Dick’s short stories. It takes the warm and fuzzy notion that someone or something is keeping the universe creaking along according to a plan, as opposed… Read More »

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

If you are going to re-imagine the 16th president of the United States as a vampire hunter, go big or go home. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER has chosen the former. If the book on which the film is based took a more literary stance, echoing the idioms of scholarly inquiry and historical documentation, the film… Read More »

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