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AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

December 25, 2022 By 2 Comments

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

And so, after a gap of over 13 years, James Cameron returns us to Pandora with an introduction that posits the most dangerous thing about that locale is that you may come to love her too much. Cameron is quite obviously smitten with his mythical planet whose inhabitants, the 8-foot-tall Na’avi, are more in tune… Read More »

Tagged With: clones, colonization, Darwinian evolution, exploitation, Forest People, Reef People, sequel, sky people

THE SHACK

March 3, 2017 By 5 Comments

THE SHACK

THE SHACK, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, is a well-meaning and heartfelt film that dares to tackle a fiendishly tricky question. If God is good and loves us all, why does She allow evil in the world? Couched in parables and riddles, and for all its gentleness of spirit, it arrives… Read More »

Tagged With: faith, God, grief, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, miracles, religion, walking on water

HACKSAW RIDGE

November 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE begins with a quiet shot looking down (from heaven?) on corpses. They are horrific, with bits missing and gore everywhere.  It’s a moment that will quickly give way to the battle of Okinawa that made them. Bodies ripped by bullets falling to the ground, others engulfed in flames running in panic.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, basic training, Blue Ridge Mountains, conscientious objector, drill sergeant, first love, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa, Pacific Theater, tourniquet, World War II

TERMINATOR SALVATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR SALVATION

For all the explosions, gunfire, firestorms, and manly gnashing of teeth, TERMINTATOR SALVATION has an overriding weariness to it.  The franchise, while robust box-office wise, has essentially been telling the same story now for a quarter of a century. A tale of time-travel, murderous cyborgs, and a father born decades after his son’’s conception is… Read More »

Tagged With: franchise, future, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

AVATAR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

James Cameron’s AVATAR is a bold and imaginative vision brought low by a script that plays it very, very safe. Timely and environmentally apt, the rich creativity that is evident in the imagining of Pandora, the planet that is Earth’s last, best hope for survival, is juxtaposed with stock characters from Cameron’s playbook, including the… Read More »

CLASH OF THE TITANS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It takes about 15 minutes to realize that the remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS is an irredeemable loss. Unfortunately, there is still another 105 minutes or so to endure until the ordeal is over. Where the original, no masterpiece to be sure, had a cheesy sort of charm, this offers only the irritation of… Read More »

MAN ON A LEDGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MAN ON A LEDGE is a not unworthy entry in the suspense/thriller subgenre dealing with an innocent man trying to prove his innocence. The innocent man is cop framed for a diamond theft. The ruse is to play bait-and-switch with the authorities who put him in prison. The execution is neither as lean nor as… Read More »

SABOTAGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SABOTAGE

I can’’t fathom why when END OF WATCH was so dynamic, David Ayer’s directorial follow-up, SABOTAGE, is so inert. Where END OF WATCH had depth and energy, SABOTAGE is is rambling, and at times incongruous, as it unspools a set of stock characters dithering about in a cesspool of rubbery ethics and dogged determination. Perhaps… Read More »

Tagged With: bikers, DEA, drug addiction, heist, undercover

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