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BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE

June 17, 2024 By Leave a Comment

BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE

The bad boys are back and, despite pre-emptive acknowledgements about how time is catching up with Miami’s most bombastic comedy duo of cop partners, the action is as fresh and fun as ever in BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE. If the schtick between “sensible” Mike and buffoonish Marcus isn’t quite as fresh or fun, transmogrifying… Read More »

Tagged With: abandoned amusement park, albino alligator, drug cartel, drug dealer, eroticizing junk food, franchise, HOT FUZZ, metaphysical, Miami, near-death experience, reincarnation, rogue cops, sequel, soul mates, swamp, wedding

GEMINI MAN

October 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GEMINI MAN

It is the age old question, just because we >can< so something, does that automatically mean that we should?  In the case of pitting an older Will Smith against a younger Will Smith courtesy of the slick visual effects in GEMINI MAN, the answer is a resounding no.  Make that NO. The visual trickery that… Read More »

Tagged With: black ops, Budapest, Cartagena, cloning, Georgia, government assassin

ALADDIN

May 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ALADDIN

The live-action version of ALADDIN does many things, including blurring the line between animation and live-action, not unlike the once and future AVATAR. It is more animation than live action and perhaps at some point there should be specific designation for cinematic efforts of this kind. But I digress. Most of what makes the film… Read More »

SUICIDE SQUAD

August 5, 2016 By 1 Comment

SUICIDE SQUAD

One is put in mind of Shakespeare. Sort of.  Watching SUICIDE SQUAD, that is, and thinking that here we have a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying  much worse than nothing, signifying a major financial loss for its studio.  Not to mention the time lost by the viewer. This irredeemable… Read More »

Tagged With: bank robber, bomb, DC Comics, Gotham City, hired assassin, insanity, magic, mess, pyrokinesis, villains

CONCUSSION

January 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CONCUSSION

By comparing the National Football League’s reaction to medical evidence linking repeated head trauma by its players to long-term brain damage and that of the tobacco industry’s reaction to medical evidence linking cancer and cigarette smoking, CONCUSSION cleverly makes its case. If it were just a case for corporate greed, that would be disturbing enough,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE, forensic pathology, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, traumatic brain injury, whistleblower

FOCUS Needs Some Adjustment

February 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

FOCUS Needs Some Adjustment

Glenn Ficarra and John Renqua have made some films that are close to my heart. BAD SANTA, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, CRAZY STUPID LOVE are movies that are funny and smart without resorting to schmaltz. Instead, they are subversive satires about human nature, and what happens when wide-eyed innocence meets conniving manipulator. The same… Read More »

Tagged With: B.D. Wong, Brennan Brown, cinema, comedy-drama, con man, confidence game, crime caper, deception, film, Gerald McRaney, Glenn Ficarra, John Renqua, Margot Robbie, movie, narrative, narrative and tagged Adrian Martinez, race car, racing, romance, Super Bowl, Toledo Button, Will Smith

HANCOCK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John Hancock (Will Smith) is not your typical superhero, and HANCOCK is not your typical superhero film. It is as daring and audacious as its eponymous hero, venturing into realms of mythos and sentiment with equal dexterity and erudition.  It’s one of the funniest flicks out this summer. It’s one of the most romantic. It’s… Read More »

SEVEN POUNDS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SEVEN POUNDS is an ambitious film tripped up by its execution. Full of noble intent, and the brave choice to (mostly) eschew sticky sentimentality in favor of a more clinical approach to the issue of a man obsessed with death, alas, the result is a film that is for the first three-quarters of its running… Read More »

MEN IN BLACK 3

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

In MEN IN BLACK 3, the tone has shifted from one of hellzapopping fun to hellzappoping fun with a dollop of sentiment. It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does. Not in the least because the script has a light touch when getting serious, and because Will Smith has some serious range. The premise is time… Read More »

AFTER EARTH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

AFTER EARTH is a solemn, self-congratulatory flick showing all the symptoms of a vanity piece run amok. Based on a story devised by star Will Smith as a vehicle to launch 14-year-old son Jaden as an action star, it shows little internal logic while never giving the audience a reason to care about anything that… Read More »

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