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SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

March 17, 2023 By Leave a Comment

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS is a big and bubbly adventure overflowing with wisecracks, mythical creatures and, for the good people who have taken in so many foster children, an explanation for why their house keeps getting hit by lightning. A worthy sequel to its original, it picks up with Billy Batson (Asher Angel) still… Read More »

Tagged With: aging out, foster care system, high school, Olympic gods, Rock of Eternity, sequel super hero

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

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

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

November 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

At one point during Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION, one of the character wails “What is reality?” It’s a fair question considering the plot twist that has just been revealed to the suitably colorful cast of characters, and one that neatly sums up why Mr. Johnson’s second installment in the casebook of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)… Read More »

Tagged With: conspicuous excess, Greek island, murder, mystery, private island

BLACK ADAM

October 21, 2022 By 2 Comments

BLACK ADAM

Until now, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN has been the nadir of DC’s excursions into cinema. Now it has lost even that paltry distinction with the onset of BLACK ADAM, a film with much sound and fury that signifies nothing. Not even Dwayne Johnson, one of the most charismatic movie stars working today can right this shipwreck,… Read More »

Tagged With: DC Comics, DCEU, egregious plot device, Middle East, superhero, western cultural imperialists, wizard

SUMMERING

August 13, 2022 By 1 Comment

SUMMERING

SUMMERING artfully combines the mundane with magical realism as four 11-year-old girls face summer’s end and the daunting prospect of middle school.

Tagged With: dead body, friendship, helicopter mother, mean girl, middle school, summer

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 16, 2022 By 1 Comment

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

One senses that the novel of the same name on which WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING possessed some lovely prose. Certainly, when the narration includes lines from the book, there is the dark poetic ring of classic Southern Gothic reverberating from the musings on death intoned by the adult version of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Whatever philosophical… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, child abuse, classism, disappointing men, marsh, murder, mystery, North Carolina, swamp, trial

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

July 8, 2022 By 1 Comment

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

It’s not that THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER is unwatchable. Quite the contrary. The special effects are stupendously unrestrained. The story is adorable, leaning towards a good-natured spoof of superhero movies as practiced in the 2020s. The performances can’t be faulted, even if Christian Bale as the god-hating ex-acolyte out for revenge is far darker, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, New Asgard, revnge, screaming goats, sequel, Stage 4 cancer, tourist attraction

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