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ANTLERS

October 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

ANTLERS

I don’t know that I subscribe to the idea that there are some works of prose that are “unfilmable.” This is not to say that a successsful translation from one art form to another doesn’t require a certain amount of compromise around the source material. Prose, while relying on the eyes in order to absorb… Read More »

Tagged With: Filial Relationships, glistening viscera, myth, mythic creatures, Native-American, Oregon

JUNGLE CRUISE

August 6, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JUNGLE CRUISE

Disney surprised us all when it turned one of Disneyland’s attractions, Pirates of the Caribbean, into a top-notch action/adventure/comedy. Alas, Disney has surprised us again, but with JUNGLE CRUISE, based on one of the venerable attractions from that ci-mentioned theme park, it’s more along the lines of disappointment. We relive that attraction in due course,… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazon, arrowhead, based on a theme park ride, conquistador, panacea, submarine

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

February 10, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

The religious overtones of JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH come towards the end of this searing examination of racial politics during the 1960s. And when they arrive, in a sequence that is most assuredly a shout-out to the Last Supper, director/co-writer Shaka King has earned the right, and then some, to invoke the metaphor. The… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Black Panthers, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, class struggle, FBI, government surveillance, racism

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

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