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NANNY — Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

NANNY —  Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Led by a stunning performance by Anna Diop in the title role of Aisha, an undocumented immigrant working to bring her young son over from Senegal, NANNY is a powerful yet subtle film that uses horror as a way of addressing so much more, in this case, the… Read More »

Tagged With: accent, angry black woman syndrome, injustice, magic, mythology, Nietzsche, patriarchy, racism, rage, reclaiming power, Sartre, Sundance

GODS OF EGYPT

March 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment

GODS OF EGYPT

The ancient Greeks preached moderation in all things, and while GODS OF EGYPT is set in that ancient land, not the Peloponnese, I was put in mind of that advice. This is a film of craven excess in all things except what would have helped most: a good script. For two hours or so, we… Read More »

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, blindness, Egypt, eye gouging, Eye of Horus, flying scarabs, fraternal war, mythology, romance, Thoth, true love

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

February 4, 2015 By 2 Comments

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

SONG OF THE SEA reminds us of the power of simplicity in storytelling and in animation.  Hand-drawn and steeped in Irish folklore, it is a profoundly moving experience rife with charm, wisdom, and beauty.  Told from a child’s perspective, the magical and the mundane coalesce in perfect harmony, revealing the one in the other in… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic, cinema, drama, film, folklore, Ireland, Irish, Macha, mythology, narrative, ocean, Owl Witch, seal, selkie

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

February 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

The Wachowskis know how to produce a spectacle. In that, they may very well be the cinematic heirs of Cecil B. DeMille, whose films featured showmanship of the highest caliber, but some of whose films could charitably be described as insubstantial. And such is the case with the space saga, JUPITER ASCENDING, a film chock-a-block… Read More »

Tagged With: alien abduction, bees, Channing Tatum, Chicago, crop circles, derivative, dinosaur extinction, Eddie Redmayne, folklore, gene splicing, genetics, hero's journey, honeycomb, house-cleaner, Mila Kunis, mythology, repetitive, rip-off

SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Dreamworks has taken a novel approach to their latest animated film, SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS. The studio has done an homage not just to adventure films from the 1950s, but more specifically, to the B adventure films from that era. Not that that’’s a bad thing, they were fun in a kitschy way,… Read More »

Tagged With: legends, medusa, mythology, Sinbad

CHAC: THE RAIN GOD

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

CHAC: THE RAIN GOD

Long unavailable to its legion of fans, CHAC THE RAIN GOD, made by Rolando Klein  and released 1975, has been issued in a superb DVD edition by Milestone. It’s about time. This tale of pilgrimage, ritual and sacrifice in a Maya village in the Mexican wilderness has a magic and a wonder that few films achieve. The story… Read More »

Tagged With: Maya, Milestone, mythology, Popol Vuh, spirituality, underworld, witch

Alexandre O. Philippe Makes the Case for THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alexandre O. Philippe Makes the Case for THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS

Is George Lucas more than just a filmmaker with a franchise worth billions? Is he also that franchise’s #1 Fanboy? It’s one of many intriguing questions in Alexandre Philippe’s documentary about the relationship the fans have with  the creator of the Star Wars universe. While Philippe demurred about the exact number of Star Wars action… Read More »

Tagged With: Alexandre O. Phillipe, fanboy, fantasy, George Lucas, Jar Jar Binks, mythology, science fiction, Star Wars, superfans, Who Shot First

Andre Ovredal Exposes the TROLLHUNTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andre Ovredal Exposes the TROLLHUNTER

Andre Ovredal waited over a decade before embarking on his second adventure in feature filmmaking. He used the time to hone his skills as a successful commercial filmmaker in his native Norway, a country whose folklore gifted him with the premise of TROLLHUNTER. A man with a quick wit, and a killer smile, he talked… Read More »

Tagged With: Andre Ovredal, cinema, comedy, fantasy, faux documentary, folklore, Hans Morten Hansen, mythology, narrative, Norway, Norwegian Cinema, Otto Jespersen, trolls

Pat Solomon is FINDING JOE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Pat Solomon is FINDING JOE

Pat Solomon usually spends his professional life making commercials. In 2009, though, he took it upon himself to introduce a new generation of viewers to the work of Joseph Campbell, in particular his ground-breaking book, “The Hero with A Thousand Faces”. The result is a lively film that puts yet another face on the Hero… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, Deepak Chopra, documentary, film, folktales, hero's journey, Joeseph Campbell, life lessons, movies, mythology, Pat Solomon, The Hero with A Thousand Faces, Tony Hawk

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