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ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

May 27, 2016 By 1 Comment

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

There could be many reasons to eschew the story that Lewis Carroll himself wrote about Alice and her adventures through the looking glass. Alas, Disney’s ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS does not find any of them.  There is a perfect madness in that book that the script by Linda Woolverton fails to capture. Instead we… Read More »

Tagged With: Alice, daddy issues, Lewis Carroll, sequel, sister issues, time travel, Wonderland

BLACK MASS

November 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

BLACK MASS

It is only the smallest of exaggerations to say that there are only two types of scenes in BLACK MASS. One is of James “Whitey” Bulger either having someone executed with a vicious precision, or doing the dastardly deed himself. The other is an assemblage of characters having an extended conversation about what has happened… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen. Winter Hill Gang, Boston, FBI, Mafia, murder

MORTDECAI is DOA

January 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MORTDECAI is DOA

Sneaking into theaters without benefit of a press screening, MORTDECAI is a tragically unfunny attempt at lighthearted comedy. Based on the novel Don’t Point that That Thing at Me” by Kyril Bongfiglio, its efforts at whimsy fall flat, while its attempts to attain the quirky begin and end with the waxy curls of Johnny Depp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnny Depp, Kyril Bonfiglio, narrative

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tim Burton, wanting to put his own stamp on ALICE IN WONDERLAND, has wandered not just far from the story, but from the very essence of what Lewis Carroll created. Rather than a Wonderland full of terrifying adventures and deliciously absurd whimsy, he has created the Underland, a place of terrifyingly, yet lugubrious, bad filmmaking.… Read More »

TOURIST, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE TOURIST is a leisurely thriller, more interesting than heart-stopping, with an unfortunate tendency to stall. Designed to showcase the good looks and star quality of its Venice locations, and of its stars, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, it is a picture postcard of a flick. At its center is a bait-and-switch caper devised by… Read More »

RANGO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

RANGO triumphantly trades on the peculiar appeal of the well-executed excursion into the grotesque. Channeling spaghetti westerns, Cervantes, Castaneda, and a dash of CHINATOWN as refracted through the visual sensibilities of Dali, it is a fiendishly clever concretion of high- and low-brow in a story that is both vision quest and farce. The eponymous and… Read More »

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN — ON STRANGER TIDES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

 Sometimes an actor finds a role that becomes his second self, so precisely does he embody it, and so identified does he become with it. William Powell had Nick Charles in THE THIN MAN series. Basil Rathbone became Sherlock Holmes to a couple of generations. Johnny Depp has Captain Jack Sparrow. Unlike Powell or Rathbone,… Read More »

THE RUM DIARY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE RUM DIARY is suffused with the warm glow of star Johnny Depp’s deep and abiding affection for Hunter S. Thompson, the writer of the book on which the film is based, and the model for its protagonist, Kemp, played by Depp himself. It’s Depp’s second time playing Thompson, the first being in Terry Gilliam’s… Read More »

THE LONE RANGER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There may be a way to mix the monumental tragedy of the Native American genocide with a screwball comedy about a well-meaning chucklehead and his mystically addled Comanche sidekick, but Gore Verbinski has not found it in his pretentious and smug version of THE LONE RANGER. True to the Verbinski style, this re-telling of the… Read More »

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, the latest installment of Robert Rodriguez’s EL MARIACHI series. begins with a bang and barely pauses to catch its breath until its suitably bloody denouement. Antonio Banderas returns as the fastest guitar in Mexico, and I don’t just mean the way he pounds out chords on his stringed instrument… Read More »

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