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GRAN TURISMO

August 30, 2023 By Leave a Comment

GRAN TURISMO

You have to wade through a great deal of treacle in GRAN TURISMO before you get to part of the film that really works. Based (very loosely) on the true story of the gamer who became a race car driver, the first act plays like a very well executed cliché, albeit with a superbly edited… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, car racing, Gran Turismo, smarmy sociopath, video game, Wales

GOLDA

August 27, 2023 By Leave a Comment

GOLDA

GOLDA does not take the traditional route in telling the story of the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Instead, it focuses on the defining moment of her political career, a moment that made her, in the closing coda to the film, a hero abroad and controversial in her own country. It is a portrait etched… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, geopolitics, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Israel, Middle East, oil, politics, war, Yom Kippur War

BLUE BEETLE

August 18, 2023 By Leave a Comment

BLUE BEETLE

When a film wears its heart on its sleeve the way BLUE BEETLE does, it’s hard to dislike it. Not impossible, but very, very hard. Still, there’s a screenplay that can’t quite decide what tack to take as it moves awkwardly through plot beats that feel less like a story and more like the generic… Read More »

Tagged With: action fatigue, cardboard villain, DC Comics, Latinix, military-industrial complex, plot holes, super hero

BARBIE

August 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment

BARBIE

At one point in BARBIE, Greta Gerwig’s pink-plastic jab at the patriarchy, America Ferrara, as Gloria, an ordinary woman, gives an impassioned précis on exactly what women face in the current social climate. It is a clarion call that should reverberate through the ages and one that will, like the film in which it appears,… Read More »

Tagged With: Allan, Barbie, Barbie Land, clarion call, cognitive dissonance, Feminism, Ken, Mattel, patriarchy, pink plastic, subversive, synchronized executives, toys

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

August 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

Seth Rogan has given us a refresh on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that 80s TV phenom that delivered as advertised. In TMNT: MUTANT MAYEM, we have the origin story of the unusual Chelonians and their equally mutant rat father, Splinter (Jackie Chan). Unlike the previous TMNT films, and the iconic Nickelodeon series, the visuals… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television series, mutants, ooze, pizza, turtles

JULES

August 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JULES

  JULES is a wise and gentle comedy-drama about the vicissitudes of aging and the balm of a really good listener. There’s also a UFO and its extra-terrestrial pilot thrown in for good measure. Gifted with three well-tempered performances by Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, and Harriet Sansom Harris, it takes a clear-eyed approach to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Aging, azaleas, extraterrestrial, father-daughter relationship, loneliness, Pennsylvania, ufo

MEG 2: THE TRENCH

August 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MEG 2: THE TRENCH

MEG 2: THE TRENCH is a wildly uneven effort, spending as it does most of its time as dud of an action drama and the rest as a rapturously unhinged action comedy. It is far more successful at the latter. Fortunately, star Jason Statham doesn’t let a creaky script (and that’s what we have here)… Read More »

Tagged With: indestructible hairdo, meg nooky, megalodon, pampered tourists, petulant marine iguanas, rapturously unhinged, sequel

HAUNTED MANSION

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

HAUNTED MANSION

This is the not the first time that Disney has tried to cinema-ize its Haunted Mansion attraction. That perennial favorite got the film treatment 20 years ago with Eddie Murphy heading an indifferent story and a sentimental subplot that I found to be more interesting than anything involving Mr. Murphy.  Alas, this latest attempt fares… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a Disney attraction, ghosts, grief, haunting, New Orleans, pocket protector, remake, sou'wester

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE is pure entertainment. It is incontrovertible evidence that star/produce Tom Cruise understands the job description of an action star, giving us a series of breathtaking set pieces with (almost) painless exposition, and just enough plot to keep the whole improbable structure intact as it barrels along at near-light… Read More »

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

And so we come full circle in the Indiana Jones saga as Indy once again faces the Nazis, this time while going in search of the Dial of Destiny. It’s a bittersweet farewell (unless it makes enough money to tempt all concerned with another installment), rife with complicated action sequences that don’t all succeed in… Read More »

Tagged With: Antikythera, den of ill repute, franchise, goddaughter, Nazis, sequel, Spear of Longinus, subway

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