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THE INFERNAL MACHINE

September 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE INFERNAL MACHINE

THE INFERNAL MACHINE begins as a spare and tense film driven by Guy Pearce’s measured performance as tormented author Bruce Cogburn. Alas, not even Pearce’s fine work as Cogburn slowly unravels from years of guilt can make up for a script whose third act becomes cryptically obtuse, rather than dynamically charged, before it just goes… Read More »

Tagged With: American Southwest, guilt, isolation, mass shooting, paranoia, writer

MEMORY

May 4, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEMORY

Based on the delightfully quirky 2003 Belgian film, The Memory of a Killer, MEMORY has the makings of a solid neo-noir. Alas, rather than a tight script to match its excellent visual acuity, MEMORY rambles too much before leading us down the familiar path of corruption in high places and the loss of innocence across… Read More »

Tagged With: Child sex trafficker, corruption, Early onset Alzheimer's, El Paso, hitman, Mexico, pigeons in a bakery, remake, The Memory of A Killer

BLOODSHOT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BLOODSHOT

Where to begin with BLOODSHOT, a derivative lump of lethargy that taints the thrill of the plot twist, and renders an action sequence in plummeting elevators dully predictable? Right down to the quips. Powered solely by Vin Diesel’s star power, it is overwritten and under cogitated, with special effects that aren’t. Diesel is still a… Read More »

Tagged With: clavical, hoochie, nanotechnology, resurrection, revenge

BEDTIME STORIES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There may once have been a charming idea at the heart of BEDTIME STORIES, but alas, whatever it might have been has been Sandler-ized.  And not for your protection.  The tale of Skeeter (Adam Sandler), an underappreciated hotel maintenance man given a chance to succeed where his father failed in the hospitality industry is singularly… Read More »

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

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There are many deeply creepy moments in DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, a re-imaging of a 1973 television movie of the same name. There are also many terrifying interludes, but the image that may be the most unsettling is that of a doll that has had its teeth gnawed away. Innocence and violence in… Read More »

LOCKOUT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

If there were a reason to see LOCKOUT, and there really isn’t, it would be to savor the way Guy Pearce gleefully surrenders the last iota of credibility in exchange for whooping it up with good-natured abandon as a near-futuristic action hero. The rest of this Luc Besson-enabled collection of clichés barely registers in comparison.… Read More »

IRON MAN 3

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The important thing to know about IRON MAN 3 is that after an iffy start, it zooms into the stratosphere as easily and as dynamically as Tony Stark himself does in the latest incarnations of his Iron Man suit. The past, however, haunts the present, with the trauma of wormholes and aliens vying with demons… Read More »

THE HARD WORD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I no longer fear death for I have seen THE HARD WORD and no pain of giving up the ghost, no torment in damnation can compare to this excruciating mess that hits the silver screen with the sickening thud of ineptitude. Writer/ director Scott Roberts seems to have wanted to make a taut thriller that is also… Read More »

ANATOMY OF A SCENE – MEMENTO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The Sundance Channel’s series, ANATOMY OF A SCENE, usually examines a film in current release, gathering together the team from both sides of the camera to discuss several aspects of one particular scene.  The results, presented with a refreshing lack of technical jargon or stultifyingly obtuse film theory, shed a light on the creative process… Read More »

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