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DR. STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

May 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DR. STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

With DR. STRANGE IN THE MULITVERSE OF MADNESS, we are gifted with a thimbleful of plot in a vast expanse of cinematic ocean. This being yet another piece of the equally vast Marvel Universe, the story is obliged to take its hero, Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), from Point A to Point B in order to… Read More »

Tagged With: Illuminati, lack of internal logic, linguine, lost love, Marvel Universe, MCU, multiverse, sequel, Sorcery, witchcraft

DOCTOR STRANGE

November 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment

DOCTOR STRANGE

DOCTOR STRANGE you ask? Let me sum up the latest cinematic offering from Marvel Comics in one word: spectacular.  From a whiz-bang opening sequence where space folds in on itself as combatants hurl magical fire at on another, to the charismatic, ahem, marvel that is Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, this action film is… Read More »

Tagged With: car accident, immortality, magic, Marvel Comic book character, Marvel Comics, multiverse, mystic arts, Nepal, neurosurgeon

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE

December 14, 2015 By 1 Comment

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE

Tragedy is complicated. Guilt and anger, acceptance and forgiveness don’t fall into neat pigeonholes in Wim Wender’s EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, a title that is what everyone aspires to in this small but powerful tale of searching for redemption. The central character is Tomas (James Franco), a good writer with a middling career and… Read More »

Tagged With: accident, child's death, forgiveness, guilt, novelist, suicide attempt

SPOTLIGHT

November 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPOTLIGHT

SPOTLIGHT does more than dissect the passions at work in the investigative news process. As riveting as the specifics are of how The Boston Globe’s special investigative team chased down the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, it’s the larger question, that of how wide-spread sexual abuse of children by priests could have flourished for… Read More »

Tagged With: abuse scandal, based on a true story, Boston Globe, Catholic Church, investigative journalism, journalism

ALOHA

May 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ALOHA

ALOHA is a glorious, unkempt disaster of a film.  Individual elements are ambitious, even praiseworthy, but the narrative arc of this comedy-drama about Hawaiian legends, the privatization of space, and a hunky guy with commitment issues falls apart almost as soon as the whirl-a-gig ride begins.  Credit where it’s due, though, writer-director Cameron Crowe is… Read More »

Tagged With: Air Force, feature, Hawaii, Hawaiian myths, Lomo, military, muddled, narrative, Pele, rom-com

MORNING GLORY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MORNING GLORY is an uneven concretion of at least three different films each existing in a universe mutually exclusive of the others that have, nonetheless, somehow found a way to meet, merge, and form a whole that is geometrically smaller than the sum of it parts. And this is a shame, because at least one… Read More »

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The only real misstep in Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is, unfortunately, in the opening montage that shows the City of Lights progressing from morning to evening. While there is no denying that this is a city of seemingly limitless picturesque vistas that range from the familiar to the novel, Allen is entranced by too… Read More »

A MOST WANTED MAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A MOST WANTED MAN evokes the best of the Cold War thrillers of the 1960s. Hardly a surprise, considering it’s based on a novel by the master of that genre, John  le Carre. Directed with that genre’s same sense of understated, but lethal, suspense borne of uncertainty by Anton Corbijn it updates the action from… Read More »

Tagged With: CIA, espionage, John le Caree, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, terrorism

MEAN GIRLS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Much has been made of late about the culture of adolescent girls, as in, the viciousness to the pecking order of the cool girls and the ones that will do anything to become one of them. Tina Fey, the first female head writer of “Saturday Night Live” has mined that territory, one that seems rife… Read More »

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