I’ll say this for James Cameron, he knows how to push the envelope of what special effects can do. He gave us the Terminator series, and he sank the Titanic in a spectacular fashion that not only took the ship to the bottom of the ocean but also explained the structural failures that cascaded into… Read More »
THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS
It’s been too long since we’ve had a new film about the hero of Bikini Bottom, and THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS is the perfect holiday present from the fine folks who have been animating him since 1999. This time out, SpongeBob longs to be a swashbuckler and finds himself caught up in a… Read More »
WICKED: FOR GOOD
The one thing you can say about WICKED: FOR GOOD without fear of contradiction is that there is a lot of it. Not just the running time, which feels like so much more than 138 minutes, but in the Rococo exuberance of the production design. So much production design. It goes beyond mere attention to… Read More »
SPINAL TAP 2: THE END CONTINUES
Perhaps the best news of this troubled summer is that SPINAL TAP 2: THE END CONTINUES is the equal of the original. Walking that fine line between stupid and clever, it is once again a razor-sharp satire of both the music business and documentary filmmaking, lacerating the pomposity and the venality of both with breathtaking… Read More »
THE CONJURING: LAST RITES
It’s as though all involved with THE CONJURING franchise know that it’s running out of steam. Rather than just end it, though, they have devised THE CONJURING: LAST RITES, using that old movie adage of show, don’t tell, in order to give us irrefutable proof of same. This entry limps through its paces in a… Read More »
NOBODY 2
The question, of course, is whether the puckish premise of NOBODY has enough going for it to warrant a sequel. The good news, as we learn in NOBODY 2, is that it does. Once again tweaking the stereotype of family values and the monotony of suburbia, Bob Odenkirk and company take us on an unexpected… Read More »
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH
Right at the beginning of JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH there is a hint that this is a break from the increasingly lackluster sequels to which we have been subjected. It is the moment when we see that Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), the upbeat mercenary of the piece, is recruiting paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) for… Read More »
THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS
There are many montages in THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS. So many montages. Training montages. Hanging out montages. More training montages. Montages of flashbacks with narration. Montages of montages of flashbacks. As irksome as it is, it has the virtue of symbolizing the raison-d’etre of this sequel to a sequel to a reboot of a remake.… Read More »
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING feels just a little too long, but that’s okay. It’s as though all involved were not quite ready to say goodbye in what may or may not be the last foray by Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. To be honest, neither are we, and by we, of course, I mean… Read More »
THUNDERBOLTS: THE NEW AVENGERS
Among the many laudable things to be found in THUNDERBOLTS: THE NEW AVENGERS is the best exploitation of the natural consonance to be heard in the name Bob since Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW (look it up, you won’t be sorry). In addition, what we have here is a big, splashy superhero flick that doesn’t… Read More »
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