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ARGYLLE

February 2, 2024 By Leave a Comment

ARGYLLE

Someone once opined, perhaps facetiously, that there is a fine line between stupid and brilliant. There isn’t. There is a wide yawning chasm that would take a super-laser traveling at the speed of light several millennia to cross, and even then, it would only register on the far side as a faint glimmer in the… Read More »

Tagged With: author, cat backpack, cranium stomping, espionage, fish out of water, lethargic, recluse, Samuel L. Jackson, spies, spy novels

POOR THINGS

December 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

POOR THINGS

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Emma Stone for THE HELP. POOR THINGS is a glorious gothic fantasy of the grotesque and the macabre rendered with high art and low comedy. Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has found his muse in Emma Stone, who give a performance that blends careful construction with wild abandon.… Read More »

Tagged With: free will, gasping halibut, Grand Guignol, just give Emma Stone the Oscar now, politics, seduction, sex, unassailable logic

WONKA

December 13, 2023 By Leave a Comment

WONKA

It would have been more wrong than I can enumerate not to reference 1971’s WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY in its prequel, WONKA. Hence the purple cutaway coat, the top hat, and not just the only possible Oompa-Loompa song, but also the signature wistfulness of “Pure Imagination” by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newly. Screenwriters… Read More »

Tagged With: battered top hat, cartel, chocolate, corrupt police chief, ethics, laundry, nefarious cartel, prequel

BARBIE

August 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment

BARBIE

At one point in BARBIE, Greta Gerwig’s pink-plastic jab at the patriarchy, America Ferrara, as Gloria, an ordinary woman, gives an impassioned précis on exactly what women face in the current social climate. It is a clarion call that should reverberate through the ages and one that will, like the film in which it appears,… Read More »

Tagged With: Allan, Barbie, Barbie Land, clarion call, cognitive dissonance, Feminism, Ken, Mattel, patriarchy, pink plastic, subversive, synchronized executives, toys

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

August 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

Seth Rogan has given us a refresh on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that 80s TV phenom that delivered as advertised. In TMNT: MUTANT MAYEM, we have the origin story of the unusual Chelonians and their equally mutant rat father, Splinter (Jackie Chan). Unlike the previous TMNT films, and the iconic Nickelodeon series, the visuals… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television series, mutants, ooze, pizza, turtles

HAUNTED MANSION

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

HAUNTED MANSION

This is the not the first time that Disney has tried to cinema-ize its Haunted Mansion attraction. That perennial favorite got the film treatment 20 years ago with Eddie Murphy heading an indifferent story and a sentimental subplot that I found to be more interesting than anything involving Mr. Murphy.  Alas, this latest attempt fares… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a Disney attraction, ghosts, grief, haunting, New Orleans, pocket protector, remake, sou'wester

OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE

March 3, 2023 By Leave a Comment

OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE

There is little of the old Guy Ritchie to be found in OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE. That Guy Ritchie delivered crackling editing, provocative visual impunity, and dialogue that burned with self-reflexive irony. They were films that all but defied gravity as they rushed headlong through their paces leaving audiences breathless and invigorated. I miss… Read More »

Tagged With: arms dealer, conventionality, exotic locales, hacking, haute couture, McGuffin, spy, yacht

COCAINE BEAR

February 24, 2023 By Leave a Comment

COCAINE BEAR

COCAINE BEAR is a joyously peculiar amalgam of carnage, comedy, and horror that respects few rules of cinematic storytelling aside from insuring that (spoiler alert) the dog is okay. It’s an impudent thing that thumbs its nose at convention while seeing to it that, despite broken laws and the slaughter of innocent (and not so… Read More »

Tagged With: 1985, bear, cocaine, cream puff punks, grieving widower, national park, park ranger

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

November 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

At one point during Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION, one of the character wails “What is reality?” It’s a fair question considering the plot twist that has just been revealed to the suitably colorful cast of characters, and one that neatly sums up why Mr. Johnson’s second installment in the casebook of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)… Read More »

Tagged With: conspicuous excess, Greek island, murder, mystery, private island

HOCUS POCUS 2

September 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

HOCUS POCUS 2

If you were even mildly enchanted, amused, chilled, or any combination of those three, by the original HOCUS POCUS, I beg you to avoid the sequel at all costs. It is a travesty of a flick, and an insult to that darkly whimsical tale of 29 years ago. To remind you, it introduced us to… Read More »

Tagged With: black-flame candle, costume contest, Halloween, ritual, Salem, sequel, witches

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