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WONDER WOMAN 1984

December 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WONDER WOMAN 1984

At one point in WONDER WOMAN 1984, it’s as if we are is dared to think of the phrase “cat fight” as Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) tangles with one of the two villains of the piece, played by Kristen Wiig. I don’t quite know what to make of that in this troubled film that is… Read More »

Tagged With: D.C., oil, Ponzi scheme, sequel, Washington, wishes

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

November 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

And so we discover with TERMINATOR: DARK FATE that time is not an endless loop where events repeat zoetrope fashion. Rather it is a curly-cue, not unlike a fusilli. So it is that in this version of the saga, the apocalypse that was/will be Skynet never happened, and John Connor is a name unknown in… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, enhanced human, gyno-centric, robots, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

THE BOOKSHOP

September 1, 2018 By 2 Comments

THE BOOKSHOP

Florence Green, the widowed heroine of THE BOOKSHOP, is a woman of patience, determination, and kindness.  Qualities that would stand anyone in good stead, they are enough to get her dream of opening the eponymous entity in this evocative adaptation of the Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel. Whether they will be enough to keep it going in… Read More »

Tagged With: 1959, book to screen, bookstore, recluse, Suffolk, widow

NERUDA

January 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

NERUDA

NERUDA is a rhapsody of juxtaposition and conundrum.  Pablo Larraín’s film takes historical episodes from a contentious time in the life of Chile’s beloved poet, fervent Communist, elected senator, and creates a fable of suitably Olympian proportions. And, yes, poetry. This is not, however, the sun-dappled poetry of pastoral idylls nor of chivalric love.  And… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Chile, Communist Party, manhunt, Neruda, politics

A MONSTER CALLS

January 15, 2017 By Leave a Comment

A MONSTER CALLS

A MONSTER CALLS begins, fittingly enough, with a child’s nightmare. We don’t have the context yet, but the primal fear gripping the boy clinging to the hand of a woman hanging over an abyss neatly sums up the emotional journey to come. The boy is Connor (Lewis MacDougall), and the woman, as we will shortly… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, cancer, fairy tale, monster, terminal illness, yew tree

REGRESSION

February 7, 2016 By 1 Comment

REGRESSION

Alejandro Amenábar directed Nicole Kidman to one of her best performances in THE OTHERS, a horror film that was both haunting and clever. The full review of that fine film is here, and I recommend watching that instead of REGRESSION, a film that is equally atmospheric, but diffused in its mounting terror, rather than sharply… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, devil worship, minister, Minnesota, police, police detective, psychotheraphy, Satanic Ritual Abuse, small town

FLOWERS (Loreak)

January 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment

FLOWERS (Loreak)

A sweet melancholia pervades FLOWERS. The juxtaposition of life’s relentless move forward and the cryptic nature of human identity that confounds, delights, and charms work in tandem in this quietly powerful and unconventional love story. Moving on is the theme that ties the two tangential storylines together. In the first, Ane (Nagore Aranburu) learns that… Read More »

Tagged With: Basque, bouquets, husband, mother-in-law, secret admirer, Spain, wife

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS and Missing the Mark

December 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS and Missing the Mark

Lovely to look at with some fine performances in a muddled execution.

Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, bible, Christian Bale, Egypt, exodus, Joel Edgerton, miracles, Moses, plages, Ramses

OCEANS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Disneynature’s OCEANS, the follow-up to its earlier EARTH, does a very clever thing by way of getting across its environmentalist message. Instead of hitting the audience over the head with disturbing, heartbreaking images of animals being exterminated in all manner of unpleasant ways by actions of an indifferent humankind, it presents all the equally emotional… Read More »

GARBO — THE SPY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

World War II ended more than half a century ago, but heretofore unknown stories are still surfacing from it. Few, if any, are more fascinating that the eponymous subject of Edmond Roch’s stylishly engrossing documentary, GARBO: THE SPY. A Spanish double-agent working in wartime Lisbon and London, he was given his deliberately Hollywood name by… Read More »

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