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THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

July 8, 2022 By 1 Comment

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

It’s not that THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER is unwatchable. Quite the contrary. The special effects are stupendously unrestrained. The story is adorable, leaning towards a good-natured spoof of superhero movies as practiced in the 2020s. The performances can’t be faulted, even if Christian Bale as the god-hating ex-acolyte out for revenge is far darker, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, New Asgard, revnge, screaming goats, sequel, Stage 4 cancer, tourist attraction

HOSTILES

January 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HOSTILES

HOSTILES is a film that takes itself very seriously. It should. Taking as its themes both human nature’s capacity for violence and its overweening need for mercy, it is not something to be approached lightly, something that director Scott Cooper took to heart in his adaptation of the late Donald E. Stewart’s manuscript. Set in… Read More »

Tagged With: American West, cavalry, Cheyenne, moral relativity, racism, western

THE BIG SHORT

December 24, 2015 By 1 Comment

THE BIG SHORT

If there is one point THE BIG SHORT makes, it’s that just because something has never happened before, don’t make the mistake of thinking that it can’t. And that it takes someone with the comic sensibility of co-writer Adam McKay, a director known for THE OTHER GUYS and TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE LEGEND OF RICKY BOBBY, to… Read More »

Tagged With: financial crisis, financial instruments, hedge fund, mortgag, subprime mortgage, Wall Street

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS and Missing the Mark

December 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS and Missing the Mark

Lovely to look at with some fine performances in a muddled execution.

Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, bible, Christian Bale, Egypt, exodus, Joel Edgerton, miracles, Moses, plages, Ramses

TERMINATOR SALVATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR SALVATION

For all the explosions, gunfire, firestorms, and manly gnashing of teeth, TERMINTATOR SALVATION has an overriding weariness to it.  The franchise, while robust box-office wise, has essentially been telling the same story now for a quarter of a century. A tale of time-travel, murderous cyborgs, and a father born decades after his son’’s conception is… Read More »

Tagged With: franchise, future, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

FLOWERS OF WAR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

FLOWERS OF WAR is the most expensive Chinese film to date, and unlike the Hollywood counterpart, this is not a film that relies on special effects to justify its existence. Rather, director Zhang Yimou has done here what he has always done best, tell a compelling and very human story with a rare and specific… Read More »

BATMAN BEGINS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BATMAN BEGINS

Superheroes say much about the culture that spawned them, and so it is with the various incarnations of Batman. In the 60s, he was a pop icon with more than a little camp fluttering around his satin go-go boots. In the 80s and 90s, it was a wallow in excess with sets that duked it… Read More »

Tagged With: cowl, Gotham City, graphic novel to screen, origin story, samurai sword, superhero, utility belt

THE NEW WORLD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Terrence Malick, an auteur in every sense, has both written and directed just five films in his since 1969. As such each new work, staggeringly original in its scope and in its approach, is a cause for eager anticipation. Each finds new truths and new meanings in events that had seemed familiar, combat during World… Read More »

Tagged With: American history, based on a true story, Colin Farrell, colonialism, John Rolfe, Native Americans, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Terrence Malik, Virginia

THE PRESTIGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The first words heard in Christopher Nolan’s THE PRESTIGE come in a voice-over as the camera pans across an odd collection of silk top hats in disarray across a wintry landscape. It admonishes the audience to pay close attention to everything and that is excellent advice, but perhaps futile. David Attenborough, intrepid documenter of the… Read More »

HARSH TIMES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

In HARSH TIMES Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez troll the seamiest streets of Los Angeles looking for trouble and usually finding it. If this sounds very much like writer David Ayer’s earlier screenplay, TRAINING DAY, that’s because it is. In fact, it plays like the bits and pieces that didn’t make the final edit of… Read More »

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