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LAST BREATH

February 27, 2025 By Leave a Comment

LAST BREATH

There is something deeply satisfying in watching James Bond or Batman engage in preternatural maneuvers when bringing supervillains to heel. There is something even more deeply satisfying about watching ordinary people rising to the occasion when confronted with an overwhelming crisis, and Alex Parkinson’s LAST BREATH, based on a true story, is a perfectly executed… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, deep sea dive, North Sea, snagged umbilical, tech gone wrong, underwater pipeline

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

October 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

Borat Sagdiyev, once the second-best journalist in Kazakhstan, makes a return trip to America in BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, and he finds a country not so much changed in its dynamics from his last visit, as one that is more extreme. The jokes are harsher, and in many cases funnier. And they need to be. Since… Read More »

Tagged With: anti-Semitism, father-daughter, Kazakhstan, plastic surgery, Rudy Guiliani, sequel

FANTASTIC MR. FOX

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

For years, Wes Anderson has created separate cinematic universes, different but oddly familiar, in which to tell his offbeat tales of family dynamics. In FANTASTIC MR. FOX, he has taken the next logical step and created an actual alternate reality. Using stop-motion animation, and a tale of excesses unbound by Roald Dahl, he has concocted… Read More »

AVATAR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

James Cameron’s AVATAR is a bold and imaginative vision brought low by a script that plays it very, very safe. Timely and environmentally apt, the rich creativity that is evident in the imagining of Pandora, the planet that is Earth’s last, best hope for survival, is juxtaposed with stock characters from Cameron’s playbook, including the… Read More »

KICK ASS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Forget subtexts about the influence of media violence on young and impressionable minds. Forget the other subtext about effect of family dynamics in forming the characters of those equally young and impressionable minds. Though both are present in KICK ASS, based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and employed as… Read More »

ROBIN HOOD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Those hoping for a whiz-bang re-telling of the legend of merry men stealing from the rich and giving to the poor will be sorely disappointed with Ridley Scott’s ROBIN HOOD. This is an origins tale, one that starts slowly and, despite anxious and insistent hand-held camera work to give the illusion of drama, never rises… Read More »

THE EAGLE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE EAGLE

THE EAGLE is a literate slog through Roman-occupied Britain. It’’s a gritty, atmospheric experience where honor is the goal, and finding it takes some unexpected turns. Based on the novel of the same name by Rosemary Sutcliff, it starts with actual historical incidents, adds artistic license, and comes up with a metaphorical tale that speaks… Read More »

Tagged With: familiy honor, Ninth Legion, Roman Britain, Scotland, shaman

BHUTTO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BHUTTO is a trenchant precis on global politics played out on very personal level. The complicated interrelation of governments and the laws of unintended consequences came to a startling nexus in the person of Benazir Bhutto, the subject of Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara’s provocative documentary. She was the unlikely successor to a political dynasty,… Read More »

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 begins with a bang and doesn’’t stop. Starting right where the last film ended, it barely has time to catch its breath, or go into florid exposition, before diving right into the final face-off between the boy, now man, wizard (Daniel Radcliffe), embodiment of all that is… Read More »

Tagged With: action, book to screen, finale, magic, sequel, supernatural

GRAVITY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GRAVITY

Alfonso Cuaron’s GRAVITY is a masterpiece of both action and psychology. It is a film that sends its audience home with many things to ponder, and many lessons learned. It also sends that audience home with a whole new appreciation of air, and I’m not sure that’s an accident. So abundant here on the surface… Read More »

Tagged With: 3D, Alfonso Cuaron, George Clooney, meteor, Sandra Bullock, Sci-fi, space station, stranded in space, survival, vaccuum of space

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