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BRIDE HARD

June 19, 2025 By Leave a Comment

BRIDE HARD

If there was ever doubt about the sheer talent possessed by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and there shouldn’t be after her Oscar®-winning turn in THE HOLDOVERS, it should be dispelled once and for all after seeing her take charge of the morass that is BRIDE HARD. Tasked with playing Lydia, a one-note character, and one that… Read More »

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

June 6, 2025 By Leave a Comment

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

There’s something refreshing about the sharks featured in DANGEROUS ANIMALS >not< being the villains of the piece. Instead, they are presented on their own terms as majestic creatures of the deep who would really, really rather not deal with humans in any way shape or form, and that includes lunch. Instead, we have a human… Read More »

Tagged With: Australia, foster care, meet cute, shark-driven evolution, sharks, surfing, swimming with sharks, videocassette

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA

June 4, 2025 By Leave a Comment

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA

I miss the suit. I know it’s crazy, but the conservative, and bullet-proof. Black suit that John Wick sports while doing the impossible makes a statement. It does show up, as does Mr. Wick himself, in From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, but it only makes me miss it more. While, not as hyperbolically… Read More »

Tagged With: Alpine village, contract killer, Mitteleuropa, nothing personal. oneiric, Ruska Roma, slinky sequin dress, symbolism, weltzschmerz, Wick universe

THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS

May 28, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS

There are many montages in THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS. So many montages. Training montages. Hanging out montages. More training montages. Montages of flashbacks with narration. Montages of montages of flashbacks. As irksome as it is, it has the virtue of symbolizing the raison-d’etre of this sequel to a sequel to a reboot of a remake.… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, high school, karate, karate tournament, kung fu, nerd in a cardigan, New York City, pizza, sequel, tutor, wax-on wax-off

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING

May 23, 2025 By Leave a Comment

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING feels just a little too long, but that’s okay. It’s as though all involved were not quite ready to say goodbye in what may or may not be the last foray by Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. To be honest, neither are we, and by we, of course, I mean… Read More »

Tagged With: Bering Sea, cyberspace, espionage, glamorous gala, hi-tech Ark of the Covenant, malevolent AI, marital law, sensible footwear, sequel, WIlliam Wellman, WINGS

HURRY UP TOMORROW

May 21, 2025 By Leave a Comment

HURRY UP TOMORROW

The phrase that floats to mind most relentlessly while watching HURRY UP TOMORROW is self-indulgent. The film, which follows a musician over the course of a fraught few days, lingers insistently on its star, Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, a handsome man with a fine stage presence caught in a script he co-authored that seeks… Read More »

Tagged With: debauchery, emptiness of fame, megastar, motorboating lips, self-indulgent, vanity project

FRIENDSHIP

May 21, 2025 By Leave a Comment

FRIENDSHIP

FRIENDSHIP is a sly rapscallion of a film, part edgy suburban noir, part situation tragedy, part existential comedy, and all a gloss on loneliness and alienation as viewed through the prism of Craig (Tim Robinson), a symphony of well-meaning beige schlubness. Writer/director Andrew DeYoung suffuses this cringe-genre satire with an ironic absurdity that serves all… Read More »

Tagged With: drum set, friendship, god in an orchid, satire, sewer adventure, suburbia

THUNDERBOLTS: THE NEW AVENGERS

May 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THUNDERBOLTS: THE NEW AVENGERS

Among the many laudable things to be found in THUNDERBOLTS: THE NEW AVENGERS is the best exploitation of the natural consonance to be heard in the name Bob since Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW (look it up, you won’t be sorry). In addition, what we have here is a big, splashy superhero flick that doesn’t… Read More »

Tagged With: depression, father-daughter, flinty narcissism, impeachment, malaise, MCU, Red Room assassin, secret facility, sequel

THE SURFER

May 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THE SURFER

THE SURFER is a sundrenched, blood-soaked examination of toxic masculinity and generational trauma that hearkens back to the symbolist dramas of the 60s and 70s with its surreal overtones and pointed commentary. It is also the kind of film for which Nicolas Cage was gifted to us by the universe. If for no other reason,… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, Australia, beach, dehydrated incoherence, fascism, flensing, metaphor, surfing, surreal overtones, xenophobia

THE ACCOUNTANT 2

April 24, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THE ACCOUNTANT 2

There is so much to love in THE ACCOUNTANT 2, or, rather, THE ACCOUNTANT2, recognizing the mathematical nature of the eponymous character’s profession. There’s a clever plot involving human traffickers, a Federal Agent walking a fine line between the letter of the law and a consequentialist philosophy of effective law enforcement, and a brother act… Read More »

Tagged With: badass haircut, bromance, Human trafficking, murder, on the spectrum. autism, remote assistant, sequel, speed dating

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