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SPEAK NO EVIL

September 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

SPEAK NO EVIL

First, we must speak of trailers that give too much away, something that dampened the exquisite terror of SPEAK NO EVIL for me. Its trailer deprives those who see it of the joy in discovering the twists and turns the story uses in order to turn the film into something other than what we expect… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, Generational trauma, remote country house, speech impediment

TOGETHER

September 4, 2021 By 1 Comment

TOGETHER

Click here for the flashback interview with James McAvoy and Joe Wright for ATONEMENT. Years from now, Dennis Kelly’s TOGETHER will be an integral part of future generations understanding the zeitgeist of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be an excellent reminder, too, for those of us who lived through that pandemic, after time and subsequent… Read More »

Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, estranged couple, forced cohabitation, lockdown, mushroom poisoning, pandemic

DARK PHOENIX

June 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

DARK PHOENIX

Is this really how it all ends?  A ragged bit of doggerel to finish out the cinematic X-Men saga? Or at least this incarnation of same.  What started as a trenchant study of human nature at its best and worst, as well as a scathingly good time at the movies has, with DARK PHOENIX, devolved… Read More »

Tagged With: graphic novel, mutants, sequel, space shuttle

GLASS

January 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GLASS

We learn many things in M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS.  We learn that the Philadelphia police department has an abysmal response time. We learn that a fully staffed psychiatric hospital has only two orderlies its employ. And we learn that James McAvoy still cries more manfully than any other actor working today.  Possibly ever. He is… Read More »

Tagged With: mental asylum, multiple personalities, psychiatric hospital, sequel, superhero

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

May 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN APOCALYPSE is as big and bold as a special effect-laden action-adventure flick should be. It’s also audacious enough to make the story about more than leveling the planet or finding new ways to decapitate people. As with the best in this series from the Marvel Comics universe, the real enemy is the lethal combination… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, ancient Egypt, franchise, Marvel Comics, mutants, origin story, sequel

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

November 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN begins by telling us that we have heard this story before. And we have. Sort of. The Frankenstein (James McAvoy) in question is the one that built the iconic monster out of spare human parts, but it’s Igor (Daniel Radcliffe), the man scientist’s assistant, who is our narrator, and it’s from his fresh,… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, electrical experiments, Frankenstein's monster, mad scientist, reanimating corpses, remake

X-MEN – FIRST CLASS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

X-MEN FIRST CLASS begins splendidly. The subtle character development, the rich backstory rooted in real history and equally real human experience, the vibrant storyline that is both a sharp consideration of the best and worst of human nature, and a thumping good adventure. And then, once the audience has been lulled into a sense of… Read More »

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The holiday season is an emotional rollercoaster for many reasons and ARTHUR CHRISTMAS does a neat job of exploring many of them while still being both heart-warming and wonderfully entertaining. More than entertaining, really, this flick from the Aardman Studio has all the makings of a Christmas classic that kids can grow up with and… Read More »

TRANCE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TRANCE is a thing of grotesquely fascinating beauty, an evolved noir designed to provoke and to disturb in equal measure as it toys with the audience’s notions of absolute certainty. It begins with the winsome James McAvoy addressing the audience directly, his sadly earnest face a perfect picture of open honesty as he sets up… Read More »

ATONEMENT

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

ATONEMENT is as close to perfection as mere mortals can aspire to. This translation to the screen of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Ian McEwan flawlessly captures the complex and powerful play of emotions that propel the story while annotating it with a visual component that amplifies rather than distracts. The plot hinges on what… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, British Cinema, director, duet, Dunkirk, Ian McEwan, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, narrative, naughty words, porcine, sound design

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