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EXPEND4BLES

September 23, 2023 By Leave a Comment

EXPEND4BLES

Rarely does a film make me want to plead to the heavens above (and even the denizens below) to make it stop. Just stop. Just stop the projection, turn up the lights, and let us all slink back to resume our regular lives as best we can after the Razzie-worthy trash we have endured. And… Read More »

Tagged With: blowing things up, CIA, drivel, male toxicity, mercenary, Razzie-worthy

THE NUN 2

September 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE NUN 2

THE NUN 2 is not a complete waste of time. It is a superbly shot film, and directed with a certain understated flair by Michael Chaves, who, along with Taissa Farmiga, gets about as much as can be extracted from an anemic script. The result is decidedly underwhelming, verging on dull despite all the ickiness.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1956, Aix-en-Provence, anemic script, boarding school, Conjuring Universe, demon, France, holy relic, mean girls, nun, sequel, Vatican

EQUALIZER 3

September 1, 2023 By Leave a Comment

EQUALIZER 3

There is a reason that the Equalizer franchise has been so enduring. From television series to franchise powered by Denzel Washington, and then back to a series with Queen Latifah taking over from Edward Woodward. There is something hopeful about seeing the wicked punished and the innocent vindicated. And so it is with EQUALIZER 3,… Read More »

Tagged With: Camorra, government assassin, Italy, jihad drugs, Mafia, pithing, sequel, Sicily, tea

TALK TO ME

August 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

TALK TO ME

TALK TO ME is a supremely terrifying film mixing the horrors of the restless undead with the greater horror of emotionally absent parents.  The directing debut of brothers Danny and Michael Philippou is a story of quiet despair that grows geometrically as it progresses for its teenage protagonists who learn too late that the spirit… Read More »

Tagged With: despair, emotionally absent parents, grief, haunting, plaster hand, possession, social media

OPPENHEIMER

August 7, 2023 By 1 Comment

OPPENHEIMER

Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER demands that we consider the father of the atomic bomb’s life in context, the which he does with stunning clarity considering the paradoxes the film considers. Like the quantum world revealed by the new physics that Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) brought to the United States between the world wars, things can work even… Read More »

Tagged With: Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, based on a true story, communist witch hunt, Gray Board, Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, new physics, paradox, relativity, senate hearing, Trinity, World War II

THE LESSON

July 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE LESSON

There are murky waters, literally and figuratively, in THE LESSON, a languid tragedy of manners about family dynamics and career neuroses. At its center are Liam Somers (Daryl McCormack), a brilliant literature tutor struggling to complete his first novel, and the subject of Liam’s Oxford thesis, the revered writer, J.M. Sinclair (Richard E. Grant). To… Read More »

Tagged With: art, dysfunctional family, family dynamics, literature, novelist, tutor

MAGGIE MOORE(S)

June 19, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MAGGIE MOORE(S)

MAGGIE MOORE(S) is a nifty neo-noir that deftly plumbs the seeping corruption underlying the dull quotidian of a small southwestern city, trading the usual stark contrast between light and shadow for an oppressive sort of omnipresent sunlight that shows everything but reveals nothing. Beginning with a murder in a seedy motel parking lot, it flashes… Read More »

Tagged With: desert, expired food, fumbling romance, identity, misdirection, murder, neo-noir

KANDAHAR

May 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment

KANDAHAR

KANDAHAR has the virtue of being more than a quotidian action tale of espionage and its attendant machinations. By taking a brooding rather than kinetic approach, it becomes a bittersweet meditation on, as one character sums up very neatly, the idea that modern wars are not meant to be won. The implications of that provide… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, Dubai, espionage, fanaticism, nuclear facility, politics, Saudi Arabia

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

March 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

What is most striking about JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, and JW:C4 is a very striking film, is how emotionally engaging it is as is goes about the business of filling the screen to bursting with gloriously choreographed, ultra-violent action sequences. What in other films of this ilk would provide a paper-thin motivation for its protagonists… Read More »

Tagged With: assasin, Berlin, cheating at cards, excommunicado, fancifully knotted ties, New York, Osaka, Paris, Place de l'Étoile, sequel

INSIDE

March 16, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INSIDE

If INSIDE were a short film, anything up to the Academy™ definition of same, which is to say, 40 minutes or less including the credits, it would be an incisive deconstruction of art as commerce rather than aesthetics driven by a powerful performance by Willem Dafoe. Instead, it runs for 1 hour and 45 minutes,… Read More »

Tagged With: art thief, contemporary art, evil technology, metaphor, New York City, starvation

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