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PLUS ONE

June 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

PLUS ONE

Ben (Jack Quaid) and Alice (Maya Erskine) have reached that awkward age. Nearing thirty and still single, their lives have become a mad whirl of watching their friends and family pair up for the long haul with wedding vows, corny toasts, and too much champagne. Unable to further bear the stigma of being seated at… Read More »

Tagged With: plus one, romance, wedding speech, weddings

MAZE

April 5, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MAZE

There is a distinct strain of melancholy nihilism throughout Stephen Burke’s MAZE. Based on the 1983 prison break by 38 inmates of the eponymous maximum security prison in Norther Ireland, it mixes the suspense of plotting an escape dependant upon split-second timing from an inescapable prison with the psychological games the prisoners play with the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, hunger strike, IRA, Ireland, prison break

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

March 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

Alex Gibney makes a subtle, but salient, point in THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY. While recounting the curious story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the billion-dollar company she founded, he draws the obvious comparison between Holmes and her idol, Thomas Edison, but he doesn’t stop there. Using the tropes of a suspense… Read More »

Tagged With: blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes, lab tests, medical testing, self-made billionaire, Silicon Valley, Theranos

PATRICK

February 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

PATRICK

PATRICK, the film and the eponymous pug who plays him, are sly charmers who take a fairly predictable plot and make it a cozy experience well worth the investment of your time. You don’t need to be a fan of pugs to fall in love with Patrick, an irresistibly headstrong dog with an agenda not… Read More »

1945

May 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

1945

The Oscars™ are not always the most reliable barometer of cinematic greatness.  Let us remember the year that KRAMER VS. KRAMER beat out APOCALYPSE NOW. This year’s oversights were less egregious, and I am delighted that A FANTASTIC WOMAN won the Best Foreign Language prize.  I am still miffed, though, that 1945 wasn’t even nominated… Read More »

Tagged With: 1945, anti-Semitism, black and white, Hungary, occupation, World War II

ACTORS OF SOUND

February 28, 2018 By Leave a Comment

ACTORS OF SOUND

One of my favorite cinema stories is about KING KONG and the trouble it ran into with the censors even in that pre-Code time of 1933. It wasn’t Fay Wray in her slinky satin negligee, it wasn’t dinosaurs tearing each other apart. No, the only censored bit of KING KONG was the sound of Kong… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema history, digital sound, film history, foley artist, Foley sound, John Foley, King Kong, movie history, sound effects

FUTURE ’38

December 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FUTURE ’38

There is a dividing line for those contemplating a viewing of FUTURE ’38. It has to do with wordplay. If you love puns you will be charmed by the whole-hearted impudence of this self-conscious parody.  If not, best to move along, though you will miss a fine excursion into dead-pan drollery. As premise, we have… Read More »

Tagged With: pun, romance, Sci-fi, spoof, time travel

INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION

September 15, 2017 By Leave a Comment

INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION

It comes across as a gimmick, using clips and behind-the-scene footage of 2017’s THE PROMISE to tell the story of the Armenian Genocide, and of Turkey’s ongoing campaign of denial about it. Yet, Joe Berlinger’s moving and maddening documentary, INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION, is anything but a gimmick. By cutting and those… Read More »

Tagged With: Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Atom Eoyan, censorship, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, John Marshall Evans, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Terry George, THE PROMISE, Turkish denial

PILGRIMAGE

September 3, 2017 By Leave a Comment

PILGRIMAGE

PILGRIMAGE tells a dour tale of faith and fanaticism. Set in 13th-century Ireland, it blends mysticism with realpolitik in a time and place so distant from ours that a subtext of imperialism might be almost too subtle, while the vicious commonplaces of summary justice, revenge, and casual violence are all too vivid A prologue set… Read More »

Tagged With: battle, Christianity, fairy fort, fanaticism, gore, holy relic, Ireland, monastery, monks, Normans, religion

DAVE MADE A MAZE

August 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DAVE MADE A MAZE

The search for meaning has never been more puckishly considered than in DAVE MADE A MAZE, an ingenious horror-fantasy-comedy of existential angst.  Rife with metaphor and deadly origami come to life, it finds the time-space continuum falling victim to one man’s determination to finally finish something he started, and explores the deadly results of leaving… Read More »

Tagged With: booby traps, fantasy, forced perspective, labyrinth, maze, minotaur, romance, vagina dentata

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