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WONKA

December 13, 2023 By Leave a Comment

WONKA

It would have been more wrong than I can enumerate not to reference 1971’s WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY in its prequel, WONKA. Hence the purple cutaway coat, the top hat, and not just the only possible Oompa-Loompa song, but also the signature wistfulness of “Pure Imagination” by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newly. Screenwriters… Read More »

Tagged With: battered top hat, cartel, chocolate, corrupt police chief, ethics, laundry, nefarious cartel, prequel

PINOCCHIO

September 9, 2022 By 1 Comment

PINOCCHIO

Just because you >can< render an animated classic into a live-action CGI extravaganza doesn’t mean that you should. Case in point, PINOCCHIO. It’s not an awful film but bringing the animated characters into the real world doesn’t add anything to the story of a little wooden puppet who dreams of being a real boy. Rather,… Read More »

Tagged With: Blue Fairy, cgi, creaky gears, epic CGI, fairy tale, gossamer wings, Italy, remake

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

January 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA is a relentlessly obvious and overplayed exercise in draining the last dregs from a moribund franchise. Let me put it this way. Adam Sandler, not known for discriminating taste in projects, took a pass on this material that continues the saga of Drac, the vampiric proprietor of the titular establishment that caters… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, father-daughter, franchise, goofy human backpacker, monsters, mummy, sequel, South America, Transylvania, vampire

THE PREDATOR

September 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE PREDATOR

One comes to a Shane Black film with high hopes. They are not always rewarded, but when he comes through with films like KISS KISS BANG BANG, or the criminally underappreciated THE GOOD GUYS, the results are quirky, clever, and delightfully original. If you haven’t seen them, choose either, or both, instead of THE PREDATOR.… Read More »

WHY HIM?

December 21, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHY HIM?

Long before he was mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned fearsome drug lord on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston made his mark in television comedy by, among other things, keeping Malcolm in the middle, and tending to Seinfeld’s teeth.  Those comedic chops stand him in good stead for WHY HIM?, an intermittently hilarious hybrid of the buddy film… Read More »

Tagged With: boyfriend, Christmas, father-daughter, hi-tech, paperless toilet, printing business, Silicon Valley, Stanford

DON’T THINK TWICE

July 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

DON’T THINK TWICE

At one point in Mike Birbiglia’s DON’T THINK TWICE, a character opines that your 20s are for hope, and your 30s are for realizing how dumb that hope was.  Yet this finely observed tragi-comedy of art, commerce, and finding happiness takes a more compassionate view of its characters, an improv group that is having the… Read More »

Tagged With: Alan Zweibel, Brooklyn, collaboration, Georgetown, Gillian Jacobson, Improv, Jorma Taccone, Keegan-Michael Key, Lena Dunham, pizza, rules of improv, success, The Lonely Island, Upright Citizens Brigade

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