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ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

July 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

The 9th film from Quentin Tarantino, aka ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD, takes us back to 1969, and a land of fragile dreams, transactional relationships, and the manifestation of the dark side of it all in the form of Charles Manson (Damon Herriman). Manson himself has but a cameo in the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1969, Charles Manson, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sharon Tate, Spaghetti western, stuntman

THE REVENANT

January 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE REVENANT

With THE REVENANT, Alejandro González Iñárritu has taken the true story of early 19th-century frontier scout Hugh Glass, and admirably manipulated it into a spiritual journey of savage poetry. Glass’s story, rendered cinematically in the 1970’s by Richard Harris in MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, becomes much more here. Iñárritu uses the bare bones of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, based on a true story, frontier, Native Americans, Nineteenth Century, Saint Sebastian, South Dakota, trappers

BODY OF LIES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

In BODY OF LIES Hollywood continues its attempt to examine the War on Terror while still making it palatable for a mass audience. It so very desperately wants to be this year’s SYRIANA, and for the first hour or so does a credible job of exploring the complexity of current events before succumbing to the… Read More »

SHUTTER ISLAND

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s no great trick to work out the twist in SHUTTER ISLAND, nor is having done so any great hindrance to enjoying this latest collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. In fact, the clues judiciously scattered throughout the film all but demand that the audience figure out that one small piece of the puzzle… Read More »

THE GREAT GATSBY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The Jazz Age was a time of excess and self-indulgence across class distinctions that was unprecedented. The scribe of that age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, poured all of that into his writing, along with a generous dollop of angst about what it all meant. His  successor, at least as far as depicting that ci-mentioned excess and… Read More »

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

You can see how Steven Spielberg and company would have salivated at the prospect of bringing this story to the screen. Inspired by actual events in the life of Frank Abignale, Jr., it’s got a 16-year-old runaway conning his way around the world with forged checks and eluding the FBI for three years back in… Read More »

Tagged With: forgery fbi chase con man

THE AVIATOR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE AVIATOR

Crash and burn is a painfully apt metaphor for the life of Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) as told in Martin Scorsese’s THE AVIATOR. We even see two such events in the course of its almost three hours of running time. Unlike the tidier myth of Icarus, though, Hughes’ story is more than just genius meeting… Read More »

Tagged With: aviation, based on a true story, Cate Blanchett Oscar, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Pan Am, TWA

THE DEPARTED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DEPARTED

With THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese has taken a good film, the Hong Kong minor classic INFERNAL AFFAIRS, and remade it into a movie that is as bloated as it is bland. Gone is the dramatic tension of a slick action flick, gone is the suspenseful psychological subtext that pondered the nature of identity, subsumed into… Read More »

Tagged With: Boston, corruption, crime, mob, mole, police

BLOOD DIAMOND

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BLOOD DIAMOND wants to be so many things, including an action film, an adventure epic, a love story, and an indictment of what soulless exploitation has done to Sierra Leone. It takes 2 ½ hours or so, but still doesn’t have the emotional tug that it should by the time the final credits roll. Set… Read More »

INCEPTION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Christopher Nolan spent eight years perfecting the script for INCEPTION, the first script of his that he’s directed since is stunning, time-bending debut, FOLLOWING. The result is a complex meditation on the interplay between the conscious mind and the layers below it, and the insidious tendency they have to pull the strings of perception on… Read More »

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