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DAVE MADE A MAZE

August 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DAVE MADE A MAZE

The search for meaning has never been more puckishly considered than in DAVE MADE A MAZE, an ingenious horror-fantasy-comedy of existential angst.  Rife with metaphor and deadly origami come to life, it finds the time-space continuum falling victim to one man’s determination to finally finish something he started, and explores the deadly results of leaving… Read More »

Tagged With: booby traps, fantasy, forced perspective, labyrinth, maze, minotaur, romance, vagina dentata

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Le tout nouveau testament )

December 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Le tout nouveau testament )

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT is a clever and wise deconstruction of dogma and patriarchy. Taking as its premise that God  (Benoît Poelvoorde) is real, but less than benevolent, it gives us the story of his other child, the one who didn’t get her own book and who doesn’t like the status quo and takes it… Read More »

Tagged With: fantasy, God, homelessness, poetic justice, religion, satire, testament

Michiel Huisman Counts on THE AGE OF ADALINE

August 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Michiel Huisman Counts on THE AGE OF ADALINE

THE AGE OF ADALINE is a bit of a departure for Michiel Huisman, known for troubled and/or troubling characters on NASHVILLE, TREME, and GAME OF THRONES. So when I talked with him on April 13, 2015, the first question I asked was if that was part of the reason he chose a role that allowed… Read More »

Tagged With: AGE OF ADALINE, Amsterdam, Dr. John, Ellen Burstyn, eternal youth, fantasy, GAME OF THRONES, Harrison Ford, Holland, Kathy Baker, Michiel Huisman, New Orleans, romance, The Netherlands

HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

August 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

This is not the first time that someone has attempted to bring the video game upon which HITMAN: AGENT 47 is based to the big screen. The last one, HITMAN starring a pre-Justified Timothy Olyphant went down in flames, and this one joins its still-smoldering carcass.  It’s not that making a film out of a video… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassin, black wool suit, car chase, contract killing, fantasy, genetic engineering, hitman, knifing, missing scientist, secret organizations, video game

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

March 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

The advantage of seeing outstanding actors in a middling film is that you can appreciate just how good they are on a whole new level.  And INSURGENT is certainly a middling film, though that is an improvement on the last installment in this franchise, DIVERGENT. With a new director, Robert Schwentke, bringing Veronica Roth’s YA… Read More »

Tagged With: Ashley Judd, book to screen, Chicago, cinema, DIVERGENT, dystopian future, factions, fantasy, film, INSURGENT, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, movie, narrative, Octavia Spencer, Robert Schwentke, Sci-fi, Shailene Woodley, THeo James, Tony Goldwyn, Veronica Roth., young adult and tagged Ansel Elgort

A Choppy CHAPPIE

March 6, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Choppy CHAPPIE

CHAPPIE is a cross between Pinicchio and ROBOCOP with a dash of DISTRICT 9.  That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one. The battleground is still South Africa, Blomkamp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, corporate politics, engineering, fantasy, gangsters, race relations, robots, science fiction, social commentary, South Africa

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

January 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

You better be careful when you take on a classic.  For more than one generation, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman were must-see television, as were the other denizens of the Jay Ward animation world, which includes Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. Other adaptations for the big screen of Ward’s work have not been successful,… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, cinema, comedy, Dreamworks, fantasy, film, history, Jay Ward, kids, movie, Mr. Peabody, musical, narrative, nostalgia, Rob Minkoff, Sherman, Tiffany Ward, time travel

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

January 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

And so it is our last visit to Middle Earth, and a bittersweet one it is.  Peter Jackson’s finale to his pair of trilogies is a triumph of spectacle and humanity, notwithstanding that the human beings of the piece are not the main characters. It’s only flaw, and that is a relative one, is that… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, fantasy, film, Ian McKellan, J.R.R. Tolkein, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, review, sequel

HOLES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HOLES

There is an attitude among some filmmakers that children’s films should be anything but sophisticated, rather, they should be simple in theme and execution and excruciating for anyone over the age of five. Not just the flicks for little kids, either, as evidenced by such recent mush as WHAT A GIRL WANTS. And for those… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Davis, author, book to film, buried treasure, casting, cinema, curses, desert, digging holes, director, fantasy, filling in holes, film, HOLES, lizards, Louis Sachar, movie, mystery, narrative, poisonous lizards, racism, screenwriter, Shia LeBeouf, sun screen, UNDER SIEGE 3, YA literature, young adult

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

SHAUN OF THE DEAD is a crisp and lethally funny blend of B-movie monsters and those “kitchen sink” dramas from Britain’s theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60s. Our angry young man is the Shaun (Simon Pegg) of the title, a feckless drone with a dead-end job that is a daily, even hourly… Read More »

Tagged With: dead end job, Edgar Wright, fantasy, gerbil, horror, Nick Frost, North London, Pe, Simon Pegg, zombie

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