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THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

For all the meticulous detail in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE about the early life of Tammy Faye Bakker, this biopic about the rise of fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has an ending that is curiously sparse. It’s not just Tammy Faye’s second marriage to Roe Messner that is erased, though he does… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Christianity, evangelicals, hypocrisy, religion, televangelism

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

CRIMSON PEAK

October 18, 2015 By Leave a Comment

CRIMSON PEAK

If CRIMSON PEAK offered nothing more than the creepiest bathtub specter since THE SHINING, it would still qualify as a monstrously entertaining film. But this is Guillermo del Toro directing and co-writing, and so the lushness of subtext mirrors the classically Gothic idiom of the story. The paranormal is the least disturbing of the elements… Read More »

Tagged With: brother-sister, ghosts, gothic, Grand Guignol, haunting, heiress, murder

THE MARTIAN

October 2, 2015 By 3 Comments

THE MARTIAN

THE MARTIAN asks some tough metaphysical questions as it answers some thorny scientific problems with nifty solutions. What’s worth living for? What’s worth dying for? And why should giving up never be an option? The premise is daunting. Mark Watney (Matt Damon), ace botanist and member of the Ares 3 exploratory expedition to Mars in… Read More »

Tagged With: 3D, book to screen, botany, interplanetary exploration, NASA, near future, Physics, potato plants, self-surgery, supercomputer, windstorm

ZERO DARK THIRTY

August 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DARK THIRTY

ZERO DARK THIRTY starts, tellingly, with a dark screen and audio clips from 9/11. Air traffic control chatter, 911 calls, and the anguished, astonished voices of people who have no frame of reference for what is happening to and around them. In doing so, the film compels the viewer to relive that day not with… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, Al Qaeda, based on a true story, CIA, covert operations, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, narrative, Navy SEALS, Osama Bin Ladin

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR begins, appropriately enough, with its protagonist, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) running.  Though this is merely jogging through the snowy landscape of 1981 New York, he will spend the rest of the film running more purposefully either literally, figuratively, or both, as he scrambles to overcome fate and the fickleness of human… Read More »

Tagged With: 1981, action, Albert Brooks, cinema, David Oyelowo, ethics, heating oil, Jessical Chastain, Machiavelli, movie, mystery, narrative, Oscar Isaac, thriller

MAMA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MAMA is an imperfect horror film, but one that is highly effective in the moment. Stressing suspense over gore, it is blessed with an original story, elegant direction, a gifted cast, and a suitably unsettling subtext about the pleasures and perils of childhood. Specifically, the vulnerability of children negotiating an adult world that has fallen… Read More »

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