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F9: The Fast Saga

June 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

F9: The Fast Saga

I get it. After eight installments of souped-up cars zooming (in the old sense) across the screen, the stakes are very high in F9: THE FAST SAGA, a franchise that is dedicated to finding new ways to crash, crumple, and otherwise decimate automobiles. And so including a Pontiac Fiero tooling around in space should not… Read More »

Tagged With: car crash, car in space, origin story, sequel

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

October 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Considering it only lasted two seasons in its initial run back in the 1960s, the television version of Charles Addam’s gruesomely enchanting New Yorker cartoon, The Addams Family, has become a powerful pop culture touchstone. It’s a favor that the current animated version amply repays, rife as it is with pop and political references. And… Read More »

Tagged With: marsh, mazurka, smokey eye, spooky, television

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

August 19, 2016 By 1 Comment

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS continues Laika’s string of arresting, unconventional stop-motion animated films that are both sophisticated and enchanting. Like PARANORMAN and CORALINE, KUBO is audacious enough to tackle serious subjects and to do so with no pretense about the finality of death, or the reality of evil. Taking its cue from Joseph Campbell’s… Read More »

Tagged With: fairy tale, Japan, magic, orphan, samisen, stop-motion animation, suit of armor

Dreary DARK PLACES

August 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Dreary DARK PLACES

DARK PLACES is awash with dark moodiness as it tells a raggedy story that suffers from a failure of to find a narrative structure as strong or as compelling as the performance of his star, Charlize Theron. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, on whose novel of the same name GONE GIRL was based,… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Charlize Theron, Gillian Flynn, murder, mystery, narrative, suspense

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

May 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

George Miller first sent Mad Max blazing across the sere post-apocalyptic landscape in 1979 and thence onto cinematic legend. Sequels followed. Mel Gibson in the eponymous role rose to international fame and, eventually, Miller moved on to different sorts of classics with BABE and HAPPY FEET. Now, thirty years and more later, he is revisiting… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, dystopian future, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, movie, narrative, Nicholas Hoult, patriarchy, post-apocalyptic, reboot, Sci-fi, Toecutter, Tom Hardy

HANCOCK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John Hancock (Will Smith) is not your typical superhero, and HANCOCK is not your typical superhero film. It is as daring and audacious as its eponymous hero, venturing into realms of mythos and sentiment with equal dexterity and erudition.  It’s one of the funniest flicks out this summer. It’s one of the most romantic. It’s… Read More »

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNSTMAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It was certainly an intriguing enough idea, even a bold one, turning the Evil Queen in SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN in the tragic hero of the piece. It smacks of Milton’s re-interpretation of Lucifer in Paradise Lost. Alas, a smack is as far as it goes here. Director Rupert Sanders is no Milton, and… Read More »

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The late, lamented biologist Stephen Jay Gould, who popularized science for the masses and made the opabinia the favorite fossil, after the trilobite, for some of us, was a proponent of the punctuated equilibrium theory of evolution. Rather than a steady-state and gradual process, evolution was a thing of fits and starts, pushed by a… Read More »

MONSTER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MONSTER

Patty Jenkins’’ film, MONSTER, is brilliant, breathtaking, and completely unforgettable. Those are words that are sorely overused in the land of crit-speak, and yet there are few films that are so very deserving of them. Jenkins’ biographical story of Aileen Wournos, convicted serial killer, has all the earmarks of a tabloid tale from one of… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Wournos, based on a true story, Charlize Theron, director, Oscar-winning performance, Patty Jenkins, serial killer, weight gain

NORTH COUNTRY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I don’t know that NORTH COUNTRY can even be said to have its heart in the right place. I’m not even sure that it has a heart. In recounting the events leading up to a sexual harassment class-action suit brought by a suitably plucky female miner in Minnesota, it cheapens the story “inspired” by actual… Read More »

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