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THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME

August 4, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME

There is much that is very right with THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME. There is also much that is very wrong with it. It makes for an irksome cinematic experience in which one finds oneself rooting for the flick to pull itself together before the final credits.  Spoiler alert, it doesn’t happen. The kitschy-coo title… Read More »

Tagged With: being dumped, best friends, CIA, gala ball, MI6, spoof, spy

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

February 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

The Wachowskis know how to produce a spectacle. In that, they may very well be the cinematic heirs of Cecil B. DeMille, whose films featured showmanship of the highest caliber, but some of whose films could charitably be described as insubstantial. And such is the case with the space saga, JUPITER ASCENDING, a film chock-a-block… Read More »

Tagged With: alien abduction, bees, Channing Tatum, Chicago, crop circles, derivative, dinosaur extinction, Eddie Redmayne, folklore, gene splicing, genetics, hero's journey, honeycomb, house-cleaner, Mila Kunis, mythology, repetitive, rip-off

MAX PAYNE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MAX PAYNE begins laudably enough. Based on the video game of the same name, it reproduces the graytone pen-and-ink world with appropriate shadows, stark lighting, and a hard-boiled protagonist that would make Sam Spade look like a cream puff. This is a man who literally crawls on broken glass without much noticing. Most of the… Read More »

EXTRACT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There is a poetic, if not necessarily gentle, justice to Mike Judge’s paean to the working man and woman, EXTRACT. Not all of them are smart, but they all have an affinity for their chosen field, and a willingness to go all the way to achieve their respective dreams. It’s bedrock American values skewed through… Read More »

THE BOOK OF ELI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BOOK OF ELI is a laughably earnest exploration of religion in the decline and fall of civilization. It also wants to explore the way religion can also uplift a civilization, or at least members of it, but it evinces a theology of such a violent and disturbing nature that the advantages of religion are… Read More »

THE BOOK OF ELI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BOOK OF ELI is a laughably earnest exploration of religion in the decline and fall of civilization. It also wants to explore the way religion can also uplift a civilization, or at least members of it, but it evinces a theology of such a violent and disturbing nature that the advantages of religion are… Read More »

TED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

From the fertile and unconventional mind of Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD!) comes TED, the rude yet surprisingly sentimental tale of male bonding as played out by a boy, his magical teddy bear, and what happens when adulthood is thrust upon them. The biting wit and sophomoric sensibility of the writing is not a… Read More »

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

It’s a brave and bold move to make the most self-absorbed, narcissist in a film the one who is also the only one living an authentic life, but that’s part of the charm of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. It’s also smart because of the piquant contrast while all the other characters are scurrying around trying to… Read More »

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