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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

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE

February 11, 2023 By 1 Comment

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE

Narrated with precocious prescience by a character too young to see the film on her own (or parts of the stage show within it at all), MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE asks the age-old question, “What do women want?” This being a film about a preternaturally talented male stripper, the answer can only be a lap… Read More »

Tagged With: cabaret, Florida, lap dance, London, male stripper, revenge, ripped abs, sequel, socio-anthropological dissection

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

WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD

January 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment

WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD

WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD is a melancholy comedy about blindness and boundaries.  Grounded by performances by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard that are wonders of anger and pain and absurdity, it examines the volatile emotions lurking beneath a family’s thin veneer of civility as it reaches a breaking point when reality intrudes on… Read More »

Tagged With: high school crush, internet fame, mother-son, social work

UNCHARTED

February 18, 2022 By Leave a Comment

UNCHARTED

UNCHARTED is like the first pitch meeting to potential financiers, which is odd since it’s been in development for almost a decade. What we have here is the broad outline of a plot full of twists, turns, and aerial stunts. What we don’t have is any sense of order or logic, even that of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Barcelona, based on a video game, heist, lost treasure, Magellan, scavenger hunt

NINE DAYS

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NINE DAYS

With NINE DAYS, we are offered a metaphysical cosmology that reconciles why there is evil in the world with a need to believe that someone or something, somewhere, is watching over us and cares about what he or she or it sees. It is a devilishly complicated question, but filmmaker Edson Oda tackles it with… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, meaning of life, metaphysics, small moments

I’M YOUR WOMAN

December 27, 2020 By Leave a Comment

I’M YOUR WOMAN

As we learn at the start of I’M YOUR WOMAN, Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is living a life of comfort, security, and irritating tedium in 1970s suburbia. Ensconced in a mid-century classic in an affluent neighborhood, she is quietly smoking as she goes over where her life when wrong, as in not having children with her… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, adopted baby, disappearing husband, femme noir, on the run, safe house

FATALE

December 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

FATALE

FATALE is a densely plotted and devilishly twisted erotic fantasy of a noir. Filmed with self-conscious style, it offers a variation on FATAL ATTRACTION that is not without merit, yet with a bemused view of womanhood that gives one pause. We are firmly ensconced in the, admittedly noir Madonna/whore paradigm here, but making a woman… Read More »

Tagged With: FATAL ATTRACTION, infidelity, Las Vegas, madonna/whore, murder, noir, seamy underbelly

ANTEBELLUM

December 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ANTEBELLUM

Of the many neat twists in ANTEBELLUM, the most disturbing of all is the one that concerns the state of race relations in the modern day, and how slavery still informs it. By contrasting the subtle, and not so subtle, micro-aggressions forced upon people of color in the present with the brutality of slavery as… Read More »

Tagged With: microaggression, patriarchy, racism, slavery, torture

I SAW THE LIGHT

December 14, 2020 By Leave a Comment

I SAW THE LIGHT

I SAW THE LIGHT was originally set for an autumn 2015 release with an eye towards positioning Tom Hiddleston’s performance as Hank Williams for Oscar™ consideration. I can see why they thought there would be awards buzz. I can also see why they pulled it from its original release date.   Hiddleston is brilliant as the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1950s, based on a true story, Country Music, Hank Williams

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