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RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

March 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

There is a reason that there is a rigid formula for Liam Neeson action films:  it has a tendency to hit more than it misses.  In RUN ALL NIGHT, the tropes are all present and accounted for with the variations that are permitted within the formula’s rules.  Neeson is the everyman with, you will pardon… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Common, crime thriller, drama, Ed Harris, explosion, father-son relationship, fistfight, gunfight, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, narrative, New York City, suspense, Vincent D'Onofrio

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

March 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

The advantage of seeing outstanding actors in a middling film is that you can appreciate just how good they are on a whole new level.  And INSURGENT is certainly a middling film, though that is an improvement on the last installment in this franchise, DIVERGENT. With a new director, Robert Schwentke, bringing Veronica Roth’s YA… Read More »

Tagged With: Ashley Judd, book to screen, Chicago, cinema, DIVERGENT, dystopian future, factions, fantasy, film, INSURGENT, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, movie, narrative, Octavia Spencer, Robert Schwentke, Sci-fi, Shailene Woodley, THeo James, Tony Goldwyn, Veronica Roth., young adult and tagged Ansel Elgort

A Choppy CHAPPIE

March 6, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Choppy CHAPPIE

CHAPPIE is a cross between Pinicchio and ROBOCOP with a dash of DISTRICT 9.  That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one. The battleground is still South Africa, Blomkamp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, corporate politics, engineering, fantasy, gangsters, race relations, robots, science fiction, social commentary, South Africa

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

February 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

The Wachowskis know how to produce a spectacle. In that, they may very well be the cinematic heirs of Cecil B. DeMille, whose films featured showmanship of the highest caliber, but some of whose films could charitably be described as insubstantial. And such is the case with the space saga, JUPITER ASCENDING, a film chock-a-block… Read More »

Tagged With: alien abduction, bees, Channing Tatum, Chicago, crop circles, derivative, dinosaur extinction, Eddie Redmayne, folklore, gene splicing, genetics, hero's journey, honeycomb, house-cleaner, Mila Kunis, mythology, repetitive, rip-off

MORTDECAI is DOA

January 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MORTDECAI is DOA

Sneaking into theaters without benefit of a press screening, MORTDECAI is a tragically unfunny attempt at lighthearted comedy. Based on the novel Don’t Point that That Thing at Me” by Kyril Bongfiglio, its efforts at whimsy fall flat, while its attempts to attain the quirky begin and end with the waxy curls of Johnny Depp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnny Depp, Kyril Bonfiglio, narrative

TAKEN 3

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TAKEN 3

  And so once again we are in the company of Bryan Mills and his very specific skill set as brought to life by the incomparable Liam Neeson.   The one-man demolition squad, trained by the darkest of black ops, is once again called into action when his family is threatened.  Fortunately, this is no irksome… Read More »

Tagged With: action, cinema, film, Forrest Whitaker, Liam Neeson, movie

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

January 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

And so it is our last visit to Middle Earth, and a bittersweet one it is.  Peter Jackson’s finale to his pair of trilogies is a triumph of spectacle and humanity, notwithstanding that the human beings of the piece are not the main characters. It’s only flaw, and that is a relative one, is that… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, fantasy, film, Ian McKellan, J.R.R. Tolkein, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, review, sequel

THE HOMESMAN

November 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones is a dour man, at least on screen. His carefully cultivated persona is a laconic one of few words and little patience. It is a character that he plays to perfection, and in THE HOMESMAN,he imbues it with a wonderful, understated quirkiness that makes his star quality all the more charismatic. As… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, film, Hilary Swank, madness, movie, Nebraska, prairie, Tommy Lee Jones, western

JOHN WICK

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK

JOHN WICK is a sleek and unrepentant film about revenge and redemption.  Set in a parallel world to ours, one populated by criminals who live by a strict set of rules, conventions, and etiquette, it is a dark fantasy of violence in which the hero isn’t the pacifist, it’s the guy who really loves his… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassins, drama, revenge

KUNG FU PANDA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

In the grand tradition of the DRUNKEN MASTER series, the one in which the hero could only wage righteous martial arts warfare when in an advanced state of inebriation, comes KUNG FU PANDA, about a bear that can only wage righteous martial arts warfare when, well, that’s the problem. Po is the unlikely eponymous panda… Read More »

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