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THE CROW

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE CROW

The word that best describes THE CROW is moribund. Even during the ecstatic orgy of bloodletting that caps this reboot of Alex Proyas’ 1994 film, it is somnambulant as it goes through its paces charting the lengths to which true love can push a young man when faced with the devil. Or his charming associate… Read More »

Tagged With: cheery shades of pink, crow mythology, doomed romance, orgy of bloodletting, reboot, revenge

MEAN GIRLS: THE MUSICAL

February 3, 2024 By Leave a Comment

MEAN GIRLS: THE MUSICAL

As we are warned in the opening number of MEAN GIRLS, this is a cautionary tale of lust, greed, and corruption. What we are not warned about is the seductive power of being the eponymous Queen Bee of the high school clique hierarchy. That is the real story, though screenwriter Tina Fey, who co-stars as… Read More »

Tagged With: boyfriend, cliques, high school, musical, outcasts, plastic, remake, revenge

MOVING ON — Paul Weitz Interview

March 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MOVING ON — Paul Weitz Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. Paul Weitz, who directed Lily Tomlin in the criminally underappreciated GRANDMA a few years back, was delighted to be invited by her and her Grace & Frankie co-star, Jane Fonda, to write a script for them. The result is MOVING ON, a deeply human black comedy about… Read More »

Tagged With: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, murder, puffer fish, revenge, Richard Roundtree

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE

February 11, 2023 By 1 Comment

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE

Narrated with precocious prescience by a character too young to see the film on her own (or parts of the stage show within it at all), MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE asks the age-old question, “What do women want?” This being a film about a preternaturally talented male stripper, the answer can only be a lap… Read More »

Tagged With: cabaret, Florida, lap dance, London, male stripper, revenge, ripped abs, sequel, socio-anthropological dissection

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

May 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Jerrod Carmichal is a quietly compelling presence in his directorial debut, ON THE COUNT OF THREE. As Val, half of a suicidal duo out to make the last day of their lives count for something, or at least to make it a day less depressing than the ones that have so far rounded out their… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, guns, mulch, psychiatry failure, reason for living, revenge, suicide

THE NORTHMAN

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE NORTHMAN

Those familiar with HAMLET will find some familiar things in Robert Eggers’ THE NORTHMAN, and that is no coincidence. The source material for both is Sjón’s Gesta Danorum (circa 1200) about a prince with both mommy issues and a usurping uncle. Where Shakespeare adapted the story to his time creating an elegantly and eloquently melancholy… Read More »

Tagged With: dismemberment, fratricide, Gesta Danorum, Hamlet, human sacrifice, primal ritual, psychoactive substances, revenge, Shakespeare, Sjón, Valkyrie, visions

RIDERS OF JUSTICE

May 28, 2021 By Leave a Comment

RIDERS OF JUSTICE

It’s impossible to pigeon-hole RIDERS OF JUSTICE. Part tragedy, part very black comedy, part action/revenge, it is nevertheless also a perceptive examination of troubled souls longing for surcease of sorrow for whom the usual therapeutic methods have failed. If that were all, it would be enough, but it goes further, essaying nothing less than a… Read More »

Tagged With: bicycle, Denmark, gang violence, hacking, nerds, revenge, unintended consequences

CRUELLA

May 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CRUELLA

It’s somewhere In the third act that CRUELLA goes from being a frothy Disney confection to a Guy Ritchie knock off. Until then, this origin story about the woman who wanted to turn 101 dalmatians into outer wear is pure eye candy with a villainess more deliciously reprehensible than Cruella herself, and even more overdressed.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, fashion, grifts, live-action remake, London, revenge

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

It’s only right that a revenge story with a savage punch line should also have a savage sense of humor. And so it is with PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a tale of rage against the patriarchy in which the testosterone-heavy are not the only problem, and one woman’s refusal to let a crime go unacknowledged makes… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, punch link, revenge, sexual assault

I AM LISA

October 30, 2020 By 2 Comments

I AM LISA

One can approach I AM LISA as a very cool horror film in which the power structure is challenged by the supernatural. One can also approach it as a scathingly brilliant dialectic on feminism in several of its waves. Either way one comes away from this deliciously atmospheric, intellectually nimble excursion into lycanthropy, wildly entertained… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, mean girls, revenge, sheriff, used books, werewolf, wolf

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