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GODZILLA VS. KONG

March 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

GODZILLA VS. KONG

If there were special awards for truth in advertising when it comes to movie titles, GODZILLA VS. KONG would sweep them. Essentially, that is all there is to this extravagant spree of special effects and occasional camp. The plot, and there is a great deal of it, is completely subservient to upping the ante when… Read More »

Tagged With: Chinese bleach, conspiracy theories, Florida, fluoridation, hollow earth theory, kaiju, monsters, sequel

CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

May 25, 2020 By Leave a Comment

CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

A lively, cinematic page-turner of a documentary, CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET, takes us on a rollicking journey through the history of Bitcoin: its detractors, its disciples, and its philosophers.

Tagged With: banking, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, peer to peer, Satoshi Nakamoto

KILLING GROUND

July 29, 2017 By Leave a Comment

KILLING GROUND

The end of a relationship is always poignant.  Be it an impulsive move made by one person that changes the dynamic forever, or a bullet to the head at close range, the finality is a moment is a time of reflection on the past, and a pondering of the future. The solidly made little horror… Read More »

Tagged With: camping, holiday season, horror, murder, New Year, no cell phone service, pit bull, remote location, serial killing

ALIEN: COVENANT

May 11, 2017 By 1 Comment

ALIEN: COVENANT

ALIEN COVENANT is a mixed bag. As a horror movie, it is unimpeachable, adding an extra self-refractive layer of pleasure to an audience that knows exactly what is lurking there in the giant deserted spaceship that our intrepid space colonists discover. As a vehicle for advancing the meta-story of the Alien franchise, it is far… Read More »

Tagged With: android, colonists, John Denver, limpid eyes, outer space, pair bonding, prequel, sequel

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

GODS OF EGYPT

March 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment

GODS OF EGYPT

The ancient Greeks preached moderation in all things, and while GODS OF EGYPT is set in that ancient land, not the Peloponnese, I was put in mind of that advice. This is a film of craven excess in all things except what would have helped most: a good script. For two hours or so, we… Read More »

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, blindness, Egypt, eye gouging, Eye of Horus, flying scarabs, fraternal war, mythology, romance, Thoth, true love

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

TRUTH

October 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TRUTH

James Vanderbilt’s TRUTH is a careful, disturbing dissection of the triumph of style over substance, flash over facts, insinuated itself, and then took over, television news. Based on the book Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by Mary Mapes, it examines that moment in history when the eponymous truth… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Dan Rather, George W. Bush, investigative journalism, journalism, Mary Mapes, media, supersript, Texas Air National Guard, typewriter

SAN ANDREAS’ Flight of Fancy

June 6, 2015 By 1 Comment

SAN ANDREAS’ Flight of Fancy

If nothing else, SAN ANDREAS is one of the finest advertisements ever made for the importance of emergency preparedness.  Those who survive the state-long earthquake that erupts on the eponymous fault line are either those who know to duck under a table or shelter by a solid wall, or those who are related to those… Read More »

Tagged With: blockbuster, Carla Gugino, disaster movie, Dwayne Johnson, Los Angeles, narrative, plate tectonics, SAN ANDREAS, San Francisco, The Rock, tsunami

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

May 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

George Miller first sent Mad Max blazing across the sere post-apocalyptic landscape in 1979 and thence onto cinematic legend. Sequels followed. Mel Gibson in the eponymous role rose to international fame and, eventually, Miller moved on to different sorts of classics with BABE and HAPPY FEET. Now, thirty years and more later, he is revisiting… Read More »

Tagged With: Charlize Theron, cinema, dystopian future, George Miller, Hugh Keays-Byrne, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, movie, narrative, Nicholas Hoult, patriarchy, post-apocalyptic, reboot, Sci-fi, Toecutter, Tom Hardy

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