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THE BATMAN

March 19, 2022 By 4 Comments

THE BATMAN

One thing you can say about THE BATMAN without fear of contradiction is that there is a lot of it. Clocking in at three hours or so, it packs in enough plot for a trilogy, as though all concerned fretted that this might be their only shot at the rebooted DC franchise. Fear not, though.… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Gotham City, motocycle, open refrigerator, political corruption, superhero, vigilante justice

VOYAGERS

April 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment

VOYAGERS

Even though there is something worthy in concocting a tale where the philosophical conundrums of free will versus determinism vie with a rumination on human nature red in tooth and claw, VOYAGERS is, at best, a moribund Kubrick redux meets The Lord of the Flies. It confuses slow pacing with gravitas, and whispered dialogue with… Read More »

Tagged With: determinism, ecosystem collapse, free will, human nature, space travel

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

November 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Huzzah for FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE  TO FIND THEM! This look at another part of the magical  universe of Harry Potter and Hogwarts, penned by J.K. Rowling specifically for the screen, expands the mythos with the sort of wildly whimsical originality that we have come to expect from her. Added bonus, with no book as… Read More »

Tagged With: 1920s, Hogwarts, magic, New York, witch-hunting, Wizarding World

PRIDE AND GLORY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PRIDE AND GLORY offers passionate performances in a story that is a series of letter-perfect clichés. The topic is police corruption grafted onto the innernecine struggles of the Tierneys, an Irish-American family of New York City cops with a thorny problem of malfeasance in their midst. The thorn is Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell), the cop… Read More »

TOTAL RECALL

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TOTAL RECALL is a pleasant revisiting of Philip K. Dick’s short story, “I Can Remember It For You Wholesale” that also, and with a whole heart, acknowledges its cinematic predecessor of the same name. While that version was plastic and kitschy, not unlike its star, Arnold Schwartzenegger, this one takes a grimmer view of a… Read More »

DEAD MAN DOWN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DEAD MAN DOWN begins and ends in a blaze of gunfire. In between if focuses on the smoldering anguish of two people longing for revenge, and fighting their better natures in order to achieve it. Though rife with elements that will get it categorized as an action flick, this film aspires to be a psychological… Read More »

SAVING MR. BANKS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I have three problems with SAVING MR. BANKS, only one of which springs from knowing how much of the story has been Disney-fied. A feature film is not real life, even when based as this one is on actual events if for no other reason, as someone once said, real life doesn’t have to make… Read More »

RECRUIT, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s such a neat idea for a flick — an intricately plotted tale of spies playing both sides against the middle with a gazillion twists and turns and no one, especially the audience, quite knowing where the middle is until the end. And one day, if we’re good, we’ll get a flick like that. For… Read More »

Tagged With: CIA spy romance double-cross computers Langley

PHONE BOOTH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PHONE BOOTH

One of those wise old Greeks, perhaps it was Socrates, said that the unexamined life is not worth living. And in PHONE BOOTH, there’s a psycho with a gun who’s taken that bit of philosophy way too literally. This being a Joel Schumacher film, he of FLATLINERS and BATMAN and other flights of high-flown fancy,… Read More »

Tagged With: stand-off, terrorize, truth

S.W.A.T.

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Did or does S.W.A.T. the television series have the sort of cult following that made a film version inevitable? Are there conventions of kids who dress up in ersatz S.W.A.T. uniforms and stage mock rescues? Are there Hondo worshipers? A frightening thought, but not as off-putting as sitting through this film. The passel of writers… Read More »

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