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RADIOACTIVE

July 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

RADIOACTIVE

RADIOACTIVE tells a story of scientific curiosity in a world where personality skews the perception of the work itself, and politics are never far from the equation. It lays bare not just the injustice of that, but also its stupidity

Tagged With: 19th century, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Paris, Pierre Curie, radioactivity, radium

7500

June 15, 2020 By Leave a Comment

7500

7500, the code used for hijackings, takes the all-too-familiar tropes of a terrorist hijacking and reframes them with a harrowing story that unfolds in real time. By removing any hint of sensationalism from the events, filmmaker Patrick Vollrath focuses on the moment-to-moment uncertainty of people ripped in an instant from the security of their familiar… Read More »

Tagged With: airplane pilot, hijacking, hostage, stabbing, terrorism

LAST CALL

April 5, 2020 By Leave a Comment

LAST CALL

LAST CALL uses what at first seems like a gimmick, two people on a split screen filmed at separate locations in one take in real time, to tell a quietly wrenching precis on loneliness and the need to connect in the 21st-century where access is immediate via phone or internet, but real connection is rare.… Read More »

BLOODSHOT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BLOODSHOT

Where to begin with BLOODSHOT, a derivative lump of lethargy that taints the thrill of the plot twist, and renders an action sequence in plummeting elevators dully predictable? Right down to the quips. Powered solely by Vin Diesel’s star power, it is overwritten and under cogitated, with special effects that aren’t. Diesel is still a… Read More »

Tagged With: clavical, hoochie, nanotechnology, resurrection, revenge

JOKER

January 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

It is, perhaps, a truism that every generation gets the Batman or Superman that they need/deserve. With Todd Philips’ JOKER, though, we get more than a cultural gloss of the zeitgeist.  We get a funhouse mirror that lurks deep within a house of horrors that is an extrapolation of what happens when the 1% of… Read More »

Tagged With: clown, DC, origin story, riots, social commentary, urban decay

1917

December 23, 2019 By 3 Comments

1917

There is a moment during Sam Mendes’ masterpiece of a film, 1917, where a character is permitted to remove himself from the overwhelming, unrelenting now, and process both  the facts of what he’s been through and the conjecture about what he’s about to face. During this moment, George MacKay, playing the appropriately named Will, gives… Read More »

Tagged With: France, Germany, Great War, trench warfare, World War I

RICHARD JEWELL

December 13, 2019 By 1 Comment

RICHARD JEWELL

RICHARD JEWELL certainly has the makings of a compelling, infuriating cautionary tale about the abuse of power, but Clint Eastwood’s homage to the common man chooses instead to be a screed against ambitious women and government agents at the mercy of their hormones.  Everything that ensues after Jewell finds a bomb planted at Centennial Part… Read More »

Tagged With: 1996 Olympics, Atlanta, based on a true story, bombing, Centennial Park

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

November 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT is an elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future. In this case, three visionaries, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. Each with a particular kind of genius, each with idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, alternating current, based on a true story, direct current, Edison, electricity, J.P. Morgan, technology, Tesla, Westinghouse

HARRIET

October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HARRIET

HARRIET achieves the proper, and richly deserved, tone of reverence for its subject, Harriet Tubman. That is, alas, its greatest failing. The astonishing life of one of the most courageous Americans who has ever lived is told in a series of set pieces, vignettes with all drama sapped from them as they take on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, based on a true story, Philadelpha, racism, slavery, underground railway

GEMINI MAN

October 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GEMINI MAN

It is the age old question, just because we >can< so something, does that automatically mean that we should?  In the case of pitting an older Will Smith against a younger Will Smith courtesy of the slick visual effects in GEMINI MAN, the answer is a resounding no.  Make that NO. The visual trickery that… Read More »

Tagged With: black ops, Budapest, Cartagena, cloning, Georgia, government assassin

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