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A HAUNTING IN VENICE

September 15, 2023 By Leave a Comment

A HAUNTING IN VENICE

A HAUNTING IN VENICE finds master detective Hercule Poirot (director Kenneth Branagh) in a somber mood. Two world wars and first-hand knowledge of the evil that men (and women) do have prompted him to become a virtual recluse in Venice, where swarms of eager would-be clients are forcefully rebuffed by the formidable bodyguard (Vincenzo Di… Read More »

Tagged With: Agatha Christie, dark and stormy night, haunted palazzo, medium, seance, shell-shock, suicide, Venice, whodunnit

MAGGIE MOORE(S)

June 19, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MAGGIE MOORE(S)

MAGGIE MOORE(S) is a nifty neo-noir that deftly plumbs the seeping corruption underlying the dull quotidian of a small southwestern city, trading the usual stark contrast between light and shadow for an oppressive sort of omnipresent sunlight that shows everything but reveals nothing. Beginning with a murder in a seedy motel parking lot, it flashes… Read More »

Tagged With: desert, expired food, fumbling romance, identity, misdirection, murder, neo-noir

SOUL

December 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SOUL

Pixar’s SOUL is as slyly unpredictable as it is playfully brilliant. Nothing less than a deconstruction of what life means, it is both raucous and Zen as it tells the story of a jazz musician who is not ready for the Great Beyond, thereby becoming a perfect koan, and possibly the best movie of the… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, jazz, paradigm shift, souls, spark

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

March 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT is being sold as a comedy and that shortchanges everyone. Based on the memoir by Kim Barker, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” about her time in the early 2000s as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, it is a trenchant look at media, politics, and the separate reality that… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, based on a true story, book to screen, journalism, network news, war, war correspondent

SISTERS

December 19, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SISTERS

The one questions that reverberates through SISTERS is why didn’t the stars, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, write the script?  They are producers, after all, and would seem, therefore, to have the clout to get any script that they wanted made, and yet, they have opted to squander their considerable talents on an egregiously plug-and-play… Read More »

Tagged With: flirting, high school reunion, mother-daughter, party, sisters

DATE NIGHT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

One tiny slip from the straight and narrow can have devastating long-term consequences. That’s the lesson that the Fosters (Steve Carrel and Tina Fey) learn during the light-hearted yet deadly escapades involved in DATE NIGHT. The material itself isn’t the most substantial, and there are distinct echoes other flicks, think THE OUT OF TOWNERS, or… Read More »

MEGAMIND

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MEGAMIND is a sophisticated story told with a droll, unpretentious air. The humor is broad, the philosophy subtle, and the animation is strictly for fun. The result is a film that kids can grow up with, and that adults can use to relive the best days of childlike innocence. The titular character, voiced with a… Read More »

ADMISSION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ADMISSION is a thoughtful comedy being tragically hyped as a comedy of the screwball variety. It’s a disservice to a story that is both funny and intelligent, as well as to a ticket-buyer led to believe that he or she will be enjoying something mindless and fluffy. This is anything but. The theme is passion,… Read More »

BABY MAMA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There were many ways to go with the premise of BABY MAMA. Writer/director Michael McCullers chose the toughest route of all: gentle yet smart. The result is a pithy deconstruction of both the trendy and the traditional, with well-aimed swipes at everything from designer parenthood to the redneck in the blue collar. The problem starts… Read More »

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