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THE BATMAN

March 19, 2022 By 4 Comments

THE BATMAN

One thing you can say about THE BATMAN without fear of contradiction is that there is a lot of it. Clocking in at three hours or so, it packs in enough plot for a trilogy, as though all concerned fretted that this might be their only shot at the rebooted DC franchise. Fear not, though.… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Gotham City, motocycle, open refrigerator, political corruption, superhero, vigilante justice

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

PAWN SACRIFICE

September 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

PAWN SACRIFICE

Chess has never been more compelling cinematically than in PAWN SACRIFICE. Whether you know nothing about the game, or you are a grand master, the story of Bobby Fischer’s rise to the world championship, and the toll it took on his already fragile psyche, has all the suspense and intrigue of an espionage thriller. That… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, chess, cold war, government surveillance, Liev Schreiber, narrative, paranoia, PAWN SACRIFICE, politics, Steven Knight, Tobey Maguire

KNIGHT AND DAY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

KNIGHT AND DAY is what a summer popcorn movie should be. It’s big, it’s preposterous, and it’s a whole lot of fun. Boy meets girl. Boy behaves in socially inappropriate but oddly compelling ways involving guns and random acts of derring-do. Girl goes along for the ride, more or less willingly depending on where the… Read More »

GREEN LANTERN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GREEN LANTERN

For a film that is based on a super hero’’s ability to make anything he thinks of materialize in green glowing splendor, THE GREEN LANTERN is a film that is unusually flat in execution and uninspired in conception. It’’s also painfully disjointed, as though there were a much longer, even more disappointing flick from which… Read More »

GARDEN STATE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Only rarely does a film as profound, as rich, and as deeply affecting as GARDEN STATE come along. Even more rarely is it the handiwork of a first-time filmmaker. That would be Zack Braff, known for his role as the philosophically harried intern on the subversively wicked comedy, “Scrubs”. Braff is Andrew Largeman, a struggling… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, debut film, director, funeral, gravedigger, mental illness, narrative, prescripton drugs, waiter, writer, Zack Braff

KINSEY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

KINSEY opens with the face of Peter Sarsgaard in close-up looking directly into the camera and asking questions of a sexual nature. An offscreen voice stops him when he uses a euphemism for a sexual act. No, says the voice that we will shortly learn is Kinsey’s, it won’t work unless you are completely straightforward,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bill Condon, bio-pic. drama, class structure, director, history, human sexuality, interview, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, narrative, prudery, social attitudes, study of human sexuality, weight gain, writer

JARHEAD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JARHEAD

The history of the military film has had several notable eras, from the melancholy of THE BIG PARADE (featuring the divine John Gilbert in arguably his best role) from the post WWI, silent era, to the jingoistic excesses during and just after WWII with such offerings as an iconic John Wayne THE FLYING LEATHERNECKS, followed… Read More »

Tagged With: active service, American military, Anthony Swofford, author, based on a true story, books to film, Homer, Illiad, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marine, memoir, narrative, Persian Gulf, scout-sniper, wartime service

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