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READY OR NOT

August 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

READY OR NOT

READY OR NOT has one of the great cinematic punchlines. It’s much better in context, so I won’t give it away, but suffice to say that it’s not only pithy, it’s also all too relatable. So is the film itself, in a deliciously twisted way. This very black comedy plays on the fine line between… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, in-laws, pact with Satan, wealth, wedding

ANGEL HAS FALLEN

August 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANGEL HAS FALLEN

The word is carnage. ANGEL HAS FALLEN never goes more than a few minutes without someone or something being taken out. Sometimes in multiples. Often with a fiery conflagration. Very often. This third in the series featuring dogged Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) finds our hero happily settled into blissful domesticity with wife… Read More »

Tagged With: assassination attempt, Bigfoot, carnage, drone, President, Secret Service

LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

July 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

The 9th film from Quentin Tarantino, aka ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD, takes us back to 1969, and a land of fragile dreams, transactional relationships, and the manifestation of the dark side of it all in the form of Charles Manson (Damon Herriman). Manson himself has but a cameo in the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1969, Charles Manson, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sharon Tate, Spaghetti western, stuntman

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE

July 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE

As a trenchant examination of the roots, expression, and consequences of toxic masculinity, THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE has no peers. As a black comedy told with a straight face and a tone of conviction, it is a first rate guilty pleasure. Any film that can draw guffaws as a small child is gently choked… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, coma, cultural criticism, dachshund, karate, motorcycle gang, social commentary, toxic masculinity

MIDSOMMAR

July 4, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MIDSOMMAR

At the end of MIDSOMMAR, our much put-upon heroine, Dani (Florence Pugh) smiles.  It’s her first real smile of the film, and how she got there is a tale of bucolic splendor, ecological harmony, and psychic terror. Brought to us by Ari Aster, the iconoclastic mind behind HEREDITY, it finds in parable and metaphor the… Read More »

Tagged With: folk festivals, magic mushrooms, mental illness, midsummer, Sweden

ANNA

June 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANNA

There is in Luc Besson’s ANNA fully one-third of a very good movie.  That third is a finely drawn satire, cartoonishly violent in its sublimation of female rage as it addresses female exploitation in the modern world using the milieus of espionage and modeling as the metaphor. The other two-thirds is a plodding retread of… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, espionage, flashback, Moscow, Paris, Skill Set

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

June 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

THE DEAD DON’T DIE takes the tropes, idioms, and beloved foibles of low-budget zombie flicks and, with a skillful flick of its auteur’s cinematic wrist, recontextualizes them into a stylized gloss on the new normal of 2019.  Certainly the “Make America White Again” ball cap sported by the most reviled citizen (Steve Buscemi) of sleepy… Read More »

Tagged With: homage, horror, police, small town, spoof, undead, zombies

BRIGHTBURN

May 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIGHTBURN

What we have here is a dynamite premise fumbled in the execution. BRIGHTBURN gives us a strange visitor from another planet crashing to Earth as a baby and taken in by a good-hearted, infertile farm couple (Elizabeth Banks, David Denman) in the midst of baby fever. As with that other story of an infant from… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, adoption, alien visitor, horror, superhero

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM

May 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM

There is no doubt that part of the appeal of an action film is the chance to see things out of the ordinary.  Like things being blown up real good, or brawls that shatter the laws of physics.  And so it is with JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM, based on the graphic novel series. … Read More »

Tagged With: Casablanca, consequences, graphic novel. Morocco, sequel

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