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GLASS

January 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GLASS

We learn many things in M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS.  We learn that the Philadelphia police department has an abysmal response time. We learn that a fully staffed psychiatric hospital has only two orderlies its employ. And we learn that James McAvoy still cries more manfully than any other actor working today.  Possibly ever. He is… Read More »

Tagged With: mental asylum, multiple personalities, psychiatric hospital, sequel, superhero

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

October 14, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

Drew Goddard crafts tales that are multi-layered and philosophically challenging. From his days in the Whedon-verse to the deliciously exercise in meta-text, CABIN IN THE WOODS, there is always much more going on than the surface narrative. And so it is with BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, which may not be the flawless wonder… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, California-Nevada border, hotel, neo-noir, suspense

A SIMPLE FAVOR

September 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

A SIMPLE FAVOR

With A SIMPLE FAVOR, Paul Feig takes a very dark turn into neo-noir by way of a deliciously wicked social satire.  There’s nary a hard-boiled detective in sight, but at the center of the film’s mystery, there is an enigmatic femme fatale to rival any from the golden age of that genre. The humor, courtesy… Read More »

Tagged With: disappearance, Mommy Culture, mystery, suburbia, Vlog

HEREDITY

June 12, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HEREDITY

The only thing wrong with HEREDITY is that is bound to spawn increasingly inferior installments in a new franchise that is as inevitable as its protagonists’ descent into madness.  That aside, this deeply disturbing horror film does not need the supernatural in order to worm its way into the darkest recesses of your psyche where… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, horror, inheritance, insanity, mother-daughter

THE ALIENIST

January 22, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE ALIENIST

Meticulous in its detail, and lush in its recreation of 19th-century New York City, TNT’s 10-part adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist is on a par with Martin Scorsese’s similar cinematic visits to that period in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and GANGS OF NEW YORK. While those films separated the mighty and the downtrodden, THE… Read More »

Tagged With: historical drama, profiling, proto criminal forensics, psychiatry, serial killer, Theodore Roosevelt

THE COMMUTER

January 11, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE COMMUTER

It’s all about what you want from a Liam Neeson action flick. That and managing expectations. Will it be great art?  Probably not. Will it be fun?  Maybe.  In this case, it is. In THE COMMUTER, Neeson is an ordinary ex-cop turned insurance salesman named Mike, living paycheck to paycheck with his beloved wife (Elizabeth… Read More »

Tagged With: blackmail, firing, mystery, train crash

LOVING VINCENT

October 22, 2017 By 1 Comment

LOVING VINCENT

The subjects of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpieces come to startling, vivid, and enchanting life in LOVING VINCENT, a film of enormous beauty and sharp insight. Created by rotoscoping actors, and then painting each animation cell by hand in oils, the result is an immersive experience of how the artist saw the world while also questioning… Read More »

Tagged With: Armand Roulin, Auvers-sure-Oise, Dr. Gachet, hand-painted animation, mystery, oil painting, suicide, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

May 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

It becomes clear early on that at some point in Jonas’ life, he has taken leave of his senses.  Or, rather, his world has come apart at the seams, and his mind has done its poor best to reconstruct it using odds and ends. Told in the not necessarily linear way that the mind operates… Read More »

Tagged With: burglary, castaway, Christmas, concierge, conspiracy, hostage, madness, manhunt, New Year, sheriff

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

May 2, 2017 By 2 Comments

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

You could, if so inclined, sit back and enjoy Richard Mundy’s counterintuitively dynamic film, TWENTY TWENTY- FOUR, merely as an engrossing study of a loner going slowly mad in isolation. As the difference between reality and madness builds to a fever pitch, the mystery of what exactly is happening in Roy’s underground bunker matches the… Read More »

Tagged With: bunker, computer interface, dystopia, isolation, nuclear war, paranoia, reality

THE ASSIGNMENT

April 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE ASSIGNMENT

The subject matter in Walter Hill’s THE ASSIGNMENT will make half the audience cringe in a way that the other half, no matter how empathetic, won’t be able to fully understand. And that’s sly. This brutal exercise in gender studies, masquerading as a biting action-noir fable, is rife with irony and with bald truths designed… Read More »

Tagged With: gender, gender reassignment, hitman, mental institution, noir, pain assissin, revenge, sanity, surgery

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