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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

March 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

What is most striking about JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, and JW:C4 is a very striking film, is how emotionally engaging it is as is goes about the business of filling the screen to bursting with gloriously choreographed, ultra-violent action sequences. What in other films of this ilk would provide a paper-thin motivation for its protagonists… Read More »

Tagged With: assasin, Berlin, cheating at cards, excommunicado, fancifully knotted ties, New York, Osaka, Paris, Place de l'Étoile, sequel

INSIDE

March 16, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INSIDE

If INSIDE were a short film, anything up to the Academy™ definition of same, which is to say, 40 minutes or less including the credits, it would be an incisive deconstruction of art as commerce rather than aesthetics driven by a powerful performance by Willem Dafoe. Instead, it runs for 1 hour and 45 minutes,… Read More »

Tagged With: art thief, contemporary art, evil technology, metaphor, New York City, starvation

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

EMILY

February 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

EMILY

EMILY begins with its titular character, Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) swooning. It’s a cleverly deceptive beginning to the story of a 19th-century rebel, and of the inspirations for her masterpiece of gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights. As played by Mackey, with an immersive and experiential script by screenwriter, Frances O’Connor, Emily is anything but the delicate,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Emily Brontë, Heathcliffe, metaphor, opiate-induced state, West Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

February 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Perhaps it’s having a child at the center of a film that provides M. Night Shyamalan with the added spark necessary to making a solid, thoroughly enjoyable film. I refer not just to THE SIXTH SENSE, which catapulted the director to rock star filmmaker status, but also to WIDE AWAKE, the film just before that… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, gay bashing, home invasion, Pennsylvania, plague, remote cabin, sacrifice

MISSING

January 22, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MISSING

Full of slick misdirections and clever plot twists, MISSING rises above the novelty of its online footage subgenre to take its place as a solid mystery-thriller. Not that it doesn’t take excellent advantage of the limitations of its chosen subgenre.  Au contraire, it incorporates those very limitations as integral plot points. In it we find… Read More »

Tagged With: Cartagena, Colombia, home alone, mother-daughter, online footage, rager

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

WOMEN TALKING

December 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

WOMEN TALKING

WOMEN TALKING is a compassionate, reasoned film about a very ugly subject that tells its compelling story within strict confinements. The action takes place among an Amish-like sect in 2010 as its women take on issues of the patriarchy with a fiercely clear eye and the safe remove of an almost metaphorical setting. Within this… Read More »

Tagged With: chattel, forgiveness, patriarchy, rape, rebellion, repression, revolt

SHE SAID

November 15, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SHE SAID

SHE SAID is a compelling story that is well told by director Maria Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Based on the book of the same name by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, it follows those two New York Times reporters as they crack the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment, abuse, and rape… Read More »

Tagged With: film business, gender bias, Harvey Weinstein, journalism, rape, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment

THE GOOD NURSE

October 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE GOOD NURSE

There are two villains in THE GOOD NURSE,  the based on the true-crime book by Charles Graeber, and the first English-language film from Tobias Lindholm (ANOTHER ROUND, THE HUNT). One villain is the serial killer, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) who worked for years as a nurse killing patients while raising suspicions, but never prosecutions, at… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, cardiac condition, health insurance, hospital administration, murder, serial killer

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