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TOP GUN : MAVERICK

May 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

TOP GUN : MAVERICK

I don’t know if TOP GUN:MAVERICK holds the record for the time elapsed between the original and the sequel, but if waiting over three decades results in a film as terrific as this, I hope filmmakers everywhere will at least consider taking their own sweet time when making sequels. This is an adrenalin-junkie’s fantasy, tightly… Read More »

Tagged With: buff physique, cockiness, dogfight, g-force, Mach 10, Mach 9, medula oblongata, navy, sequel

MOONFALL

February 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MOONFALL

MOONFALL is everything that a Roland Emmerich film should be. There are dazzling special effects. There are several plot threads happening simultaneously that occasionally show a puckish confluence. There are parent-child issues. And there is a huuuuuuuuuge story. This time, it’s the curious case of the moon shifting its orbit in a way that defies… Read More »

Tagged With: alien technology, astronaut, end of the earth, ex-spouse, father-son, government contractor, moon, orbit

THE CARD COUNTER

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE CARD COUNTER

With THE CARD COUNTER, writer/director Paul Schraeder returns to his favorite themes of sin and redemption. This is no tidy tale of a fall from grace precipated by a rash decision or a moment of weakness. We have at the center a flawed man with dark impulses that he cannot control once they have been… Read More »

Tagged With: Abu Ghraib, gambling, Las Vegas, metaphor, poker, vengeance

MALIGNANT

September 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

MALIGNANT

What is it that we want from a horror film? To be scared, of course. A good suspense film can do that, though. Hitchcock’s camera zooming in on a potentially fatal glass of milk, or the look on a man’s face as he dangles precariously from a national monument. Horror, once we move beyond mere… Read More »

Tagged With: chained heat riff, horror, psychic connection, Seattle, serial killer

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

June 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Based on the remarkable life of James Brooke, EDGE OF THE WORLD is an introspective film about how an Englishman became the Raja of Sulawak. Such was his fame in Victorian England that Joseph Conrad used him as the model for the title character in his novel, Lord Jim, and rich women proposed marriage to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Borneo, British Imperialism, Malaysia, pirates, Sulawak

OVER THE MOON

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

OVER THE MOON

OVER THE MOON sensitively takes on a difficult subject, the loss of a mother with the subsequent prospect of a blended family. It becomes a film that is respectful of the issue, yet triumphantly uplifting in it message of moving on while still honoring the past. Along the way, we learn about the importance of… Read More »

Tagged With: biker chick, blended family, lunar landscape, moon cake, moon festival, Moon Goddess

RADIOACTIVE

July 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

RADIOACTIVE

RADIOACTIVE tells a story of scientific curiosity in a world where personality skews the perception of the work itself, and politics are never far from the equation. It lays bare not just the injustice of that, but also its stupidity

Tagged With: 19th century, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Paris, Pierre Curie, radioactivity, radium

BLOODSHOT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BLOODSHOT

Where to begin with BLOODSHOT, a derivative lump of lethargy that taints the thrill of the plot twist, and renders an action sequence in plummeting elevators dully predictable? Right down to the quips. Powered solely by Vin Diesel’s star power, it is overwritten and under cogitated, with special effects that aren’t. Diesel is still a… Read More »

Tagged With: clavical, hoochie, nanotechnology, resurrection, revenge

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

ABOMINABLE

September 29, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ABOMINABLE

ABOMINABLE is a sweet, if unremarkable, movie. With a plot that offers little in the way of novelty and characters who are as familiar to fans of contemporary animated films aimed at kiddies as Harlequin was to fans of the commedia dell’arte, it does boast some fine animation and a mythical creature that is undeniably… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, China, Himalayas, yeti

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