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THE HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD

June 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD

When last we saw ex-Triple A rated bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds), he had succeeded in getting notorious hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) to the Hague to testify against a genocidal dictator (Gary Oldman). He had also taken a bullet for Darius, which is part of a bodyguard’s job. It would have been better… Read More »

Tagged With: baby fever, bodyguard, data breach, kidnap, seatbelts, sequel

SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW

May 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW

Chris Rock is a man of enormous talent, enough money to do whatever he wants professionally, and the clout to do so. This is why we have the puckishly trenchant documentary about race and beauty standards, GOOD HAIR, and the long-running television series, Everybody Hates Chris. Alas, it’s also why, as star and one of… Read More »

Tagged With: blood and guts, father-son issues, hero worship, hot weather, poetic justice, police corruption, reboot

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

July 13, 2019 By 1 Comment

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

We learn many things in SPIDERMAN FAR FROM HOME. We learn that not only are the Dutch polyglots, but also that they are the nicest people on earth, even when a private jet is making hash of their iconic tulip fields. We learn that saving the planet is just as important as getting that first… Read More »

Tagged With: Freudian nightmare, high school, Jungian archetype, Marvel Comic book character, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, romance, school trip, sequel, Spiderman

GLASS

January 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GLASS

We learn many things in M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS.  We learn that the Philadelphia police department has an abysmal response time. We learn that a fully staffed psychiatric hospital has only two orderlies its employ. And we learn that James McAvoy still cries more manfully than any other actor working today.  Possibly ever. He is… Read More »

Tagged With: mental asylum, multiple personalities, psychiatric hospital, sequel, superhero

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

August 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

In a way, it would be a shame to saddle Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds with too much plot in THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. The snark fest that they provide as adversaries forced to endure one another’s company is its own reward as they travel from Manchester to The Hague while fending off some very… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, bodyguard, buddy picture, contract killer, Manchester, romance, The Hague, weaponized hardware store

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

September 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

I have not read the eponymous novel on which MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Is based, but a quick check of the of the Wikipedia entry for it reveals that for the screen adaptation many of the characters have been modified and plot point changed. This is not uncommon, and when the original source… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, grandfather-grandson, monsters, needle-like teeth, Peculiars, supernatural, time travel

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

July 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Credit where it’s due.  THE LEGEND OF TARZAN doesn’t get everything wrong. For one, It has the virtue of addressing why a perfectly capable, perfectly intelligent black man with a Ph.D., George Washington Harris (Samuel L. Jackson as an actual historical character) needs a white man, that would be Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård)… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, Africa, Belgian Congo, book to screen, Congo, diamonds, diplomatic mission, hippopotamus, King Leopold, ostriches, slavery, Tarzan

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

December 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

THE HATEFUL EIGHT is an impudent, pugnacious comedy that uses the synthetic nature of its stylized homage idiom to be a whip-smart consideration of race, gender, politics, situational ethics, and very, very bad teeth.  The genre is the western, but the tone is thoroughly modern as a group of the damned journey through the desolate… Read More »

Tagged With: 70mm, blizzard, bloodshed, bounty hunter, Civil War, Kurt Rusell, Samuel L. Jackson, western

LAKEVIEW TERRACE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson) has very definite ideas about how things should be. His children, an adolescent daughter and a son a bit younger, must use proper grammar at all times, and there are rules about who and who can’t be a role model. His new neighbors, she’s black, he’s white, do not fit… Read More »

DEEP BLUE SEA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DEEP BLUE SEA is Renny Harlin’s latest attempt to revive a career that withered and should have died a long, long time ago. Harlin, perpetrated, I mean, directed CUTTHROAT ISLAND, which ended his marriage to Geena Davis, but oddly enough, it did not stop studios from giving him big bucks to repeat his mistakes. His latest… Read More »

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