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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

November 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

At one point during Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION, one of the character wails “What is reality?” It’s a fair question considering the plot twist that has just been revealed to the suitably colorful cast of characters, and one that neatly sums up why Mr. Johnson’s second installment in the casebook of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)… Read More »

Tagged With: conspicuous excess, Greek island, murder, mystery, private island

NO TIME TO DIE

October 8, 2021 By 1 Comment

NO TIME TO DIE

And so we have come to the end of Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007. NO TIME TO DIE provides both him and us, with a veritable cornucopia of Bond-ness, from a supervillain’s lair on a remote island, to the finely honed quip we’ve come to expect as James takes out a minion with yet another… Read More »

Tagged With: espionage, nano-robots, save the world, SPECTRE, spy, supervillain, Tux

KNIVES OUT

November 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

KNIVES OUT

KNIVES OUT takes a brisk pace with its cinematic legerdemain as its cast expertly calibrate their performances so that arch never strays into the certain disaster of becoming artificial. The result is a giddily entertaining, emotionally engaging film that sets a new standard for its genre, and, if there is any justice, will launch the Benoit Blanc franchise.

Tagged With: class system, gentleman detective, immigration, mystery, whodunit

LOGAN LUCKY

August 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LOGAN LUCKY

Transposing the milieu from glitz to grits, Steven Soderbergh’s LOGAN LUCKY does more set an intricate heist flick in the backroads of Appalachia, it also makes a sly statement about class, culture, and our preconceived notions about those two things.   It also has something that most Soderbergh films lack for all their visual impact: heart.… Read More »

Tagged With: bartender, brothers, father-daughter, hand amputee, heist, Iraq veteran, NASCAR, prison break-out, West Virginia

SPECTRE

November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPECTRE

There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude.  In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely… Read More »

Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

QUANTUM OF SOLACE does a tidy job of building on its predecessor, CASINO ROYALE, while introducing a sinister cabal that fills the void left by the collapse of the Cold War. Yet, there is still room in this brave new Bond world for wacko villains who so entertainingly populate the Bond universe, and who are… Read More »

COWBOYS & ALIENS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

COWBOYS & ALIENS is an exhilarating and stunningly successful exercise in the improbable. It trips the light fantastic ambling through idioms from classic westerns while piling on the CGI of nasty creatures from another world driving the action. In classic western tradition, the hero, Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) is a laconic loner, quick with his… Read More »

DREAM HOUSE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There are fine moments in DREAM HOUSE, but not enough so that the easily parsed story and oddly soporific direction fail to become insurmountable hurdles. Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz give performances that are visceral without being obvious, performances that amplify the sense of foreboding and suspense that should be coming from the… Read More »

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

What SNOW WHITE was to the advancement of hand-drawn animation into a genuine art form, so is THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN to animation derived from motion capture and generated from a computer. Visually, it is a thing of singular and striking beauty. Story-wise, it is just as sublime, presenting a thumping good tale of action… Read More »

GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

At a key moment late in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, a character is offered the choice between doing the sensible thing or doing the polite thing. He does the polite thing with dire consequences. The concept of politeness takes a beating in David Fincher’s turn at visualizing Stieg Larsson’s internationally successful crime novel… Read More »

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