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THE BEST OF ENEMIES

July 4, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE BEST OF ENEMIES

We know going in to THE BEST OF ENEMIES that there will be soul-searching and redemption.  The challenge for director Robin Bissell in adapting this true-life story from the book by Osha Gray Davidson was to frame doing the right thing in terms that truly demonstrate to the audience the temper of the times that… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story. North Carolina, compromise, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, new south, racism, segregation

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

June 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

When a once profitable film franchise begins to fade, the studios that have reaped the benefits of same are left with little choice about how to handle it. With so much money at stake, both in ticket sales and ancillary merchandise on the line, they can’t just let it slip away with dignity. No, they… Read More »

Tagged With: aliens, franchise, reboot, sequel

DARK PHOENIX

June 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

DARK PHOENIX

Is this really how it all ends?  A ragged bit of doggerel to finish out the cinematic X-Men saga? Or at least this incarnation of same.  What started as a trenchant study of human nature at its best and worst, as well as a scathingly good time at the movies has, with DARK PHOENIX, devolved… Read More »

Tagged With: graphic novel, mutants, sequel, space shuttle

GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS

June 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS

For most of GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, the eponymous monsters pretty much go about their business without taking any notice of the small, scuttling humans that flee in their wake. For their part, the humans, when they are not scuttling, are providing the exposition between bouts of special effects eruptions. Hence, if you don’t… Read More »

Tagged With: atomic power, monsters, secret government agency, sequel

ALADDIN

May 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ALADDIN

The live-action version of ALADDIN does many things, including blurring the line between animation and live-action, not unlike the once and future AVATAR. It is more animation than live action and perhaps at some point there should be specific designation for cinematic efforts of this kind. But I digress. Most of what makes the film… Read More »

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

April 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

The stakes have been raised so many times with event flicks that, when approaching one, hope is always tempered with experience about what to expect, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson. With AVENGERS: ENDGAME, though, hope wins out. The spectacle is everything it should be, and the story, of necessity a meandering thing, is nonetheless sustained by… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel, superhero, time travel

SHAZAM!

April 6, 2019 By Leave a Comment

SHAZAM!

There is a wondrously cheesy sincerity to SHAZAM! that makes its weak spots irrelevant. It is, in many ways, as pure of heart as its champion, and just as giddy about discovering that magic is real. Plus, there’s that flaming Santa running for his life during the climactic final face-off between good and evil.

Tagged With: daddy issues, DC, flaming Santa, foster care, pure of heart, superhero

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

February 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

It’s a clever premise that propels ISN’T IT ROMANTIC, using the idiom of rom-coms to give us just that, but a rom-com that affirms that the regular Joe and Jane out there can also be the star. One that deconstructs every cliché with self-aware relish, while also staying open to the magic of true love.… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate universe, architect, karaoke, office romance, parking garage, rom-com, spoof

THE UPSIDE

January 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE UPSIDE

It is with great relief that I report on an American remake of a fine French film that doesn’t drain me of the will to live.  After DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS and FATHER’S DAY, the travesties of which haunt me to this very day, Neil Burger’s THE UPSIDE captures most of the essence of what made… Read More »

Tagged With: caretaker, life auxiliary, paraplegic, parole

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

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