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THE NUN 2

September 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE NUN 2

THE NUN 2 is not a complete waste of time. It is a superbly shot film, and directed with a certain understated flair by Michael Chaves, who, along with Taissa Farmiga, gets about as much as can be extracted from an anemic script. The result is decidedly underwhelming, verging on dull despite all the ickiness.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1956, Aix-en-Provence, anemic script, boarding school, Conjuring Universe, demon, France, holy relic, mean girls, nun, sequel, Vatican

BLUE BEETLE

August 18, 2023 By Leave a Comment

BLUE BEETLE

When a film wears its heart on its sleeve the way BLUE BEETLE does, it’s hard to dislike it. Not impossible, but very, very hard. Still, there’s a screenplay that can’t quite decide what tack to take as it moves awkwardly through plot beats that feel less like a story and more like the generic… Read More »

Tagged With: action fatigue, cardboard villain, DC Comics, Latinix, military-industrial complex, plot holes, super hero

JULES

August 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JULES

  JULES is a wise and gentle comedy-drama about the vicissitudes of aging and the balm of a really good listener. There’s also a UFO and its extra-terrestrial pilot thrown in for good measure. Gifted with three well-tempered performances by Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, and Harriet Sansom Harris, it takes a clear-eyed approach to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Aging, azaleas, extraterrestrial, father-daughter relationship, loneliness, Pennsylvania, ufo

TALK TO ME

August 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

TALK TO ME

TALK TO ME is a supremely terrifying film mixing the horrors of the restless undead with the greater horror of emotionally absent parents.  The directing debut of brothers Danny and Michael Philippou is a story of quiet despair that grows geometrically as it progresses for its teenage protagonists who learn too late that the spirit… Read More »

Tagged With: despair, emotionally absent parents, grief, haunting, plaster hand, possession, social media

MEG 2: THE TRENCH

August 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MEG 2: THE TRENCH

MEG 2: THE TRENCH is a wildly uneven effort, spending as it does most of its time as dud of an action drama and the rest as a rapturously unhinged action comedy. It is far more successful at the latter. Fortunately, star Jason Statham doesn’t let a creaky script (and that’s what we have here)… Read More »

Tagged With: indestructible hairdo, meg nooky, megalodon, pampered tourists, petulant marine iguanas, rapturously unhinged, sequel

BIOSPHERE

July 19, 2023 By Leave a Comment

BIOSPHERE

Click here to listen to the interview with director/co-writer Mel Eslyn. At the beginning of BIOSPHERE, the world as we know it has ended, leaving only two human beings left alive. They are Billy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown), and they have gone from being the apex species on the planet to finding… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, biodome, dominance, gender, intimacy, nature, science

65

March 10, 2023 By Leave a Comment

65

65 is that most satisfying of CGI films, the type that doesn’t wallow in what it can do visually, but rather uses the technology in furtherance of a moving film. It posits a visit to our planet 65 million years ago by humans who arrive at a momentous moment for our big blue marble. The… Read More »

Tagged With: Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King

INFINITY POOL

January 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INFINITY POOL

    With INFINITY POOL Brandon Cronenberg continues his father’s great tradition of unsettling images and quasi-familiar realities. He diverges in that, for all the normalization of the disquieting, in that he fails to evince the same undertone impish glee at the macabre so evident in even the elder Mr. Cronenberg’s darkest works. Still, he… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, execution, exploitation, foreign country, orgy, strobe, tourism

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

December 25, 2022 By 2 Comments

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

And so, after a gap of over 13 years, James Cameron returns us to Pandora with an introduction that posits the most dangerous thing about that locale is that you may come to love her too much. Cameron is quite obviously smitten with his mythical planet whose inhabitants, the 8-foot-tall Na’avi, are more in tune… Read More »

Tagged With: clones, colonization, Darwinian evolution, exploitation, Forest People, Reef People, sequel, sky people

BLACK ADAM

October 21, 2022 By 2 Comments

BLACK ADAM

Until now, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN has been the nadir of DC’s excursions into cinema. Now it has lost even that paltry distinction with the onset of BLACK ADAM, a film with much sound and fury that signifies nothing. Not even Dwayne Johnson, one of the most charismatic movie stars working today can right this shipwreck,… Read More »

Tagged With: DC Comics, DCEU, egregious plot device, Middle East, superhero, western cultural imperialists, wizard

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