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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

March 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

What is most striking about JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, and JW:C4 is a very striking film, is how emotionally engaging it is as is goes about the business of filling the screen to bursting with gloriously choreographed, ultra-violent action sequences. What in other films of this ilk would provide a paper-thin motivation for its protagonists… Read More »

Tagged With: assasin, Berlin, cheating at cards, excommunicado, fancifully knotted ties, New York, Osaka, Paris, Place de l'Étoile, sequel

SCREAM VI

March 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment

SCREAM VI

The Scream franchise is not one that wants to be taken seriously as a straight horror film. From the first iconoclastic installment so many years ago, its aim, it’s very raison d’être, was to call out the conventions of slasher films and then serve up a gory slashfest to an audience primed to laugh at… Read More »

Tagged With: franchise, Ghost Face, Manhattan, New York City, requel, sequel, serial killer, sisters

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

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

December 25, 2022 By 2 Comments

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

And so, after a gap of over 13 years, James Cameron returns us to Pandora with an introduction that posits the most dangerous thing about that locale is that you may come to love her too much. Cameron is quite obviously smitten with his mythical planet whose inhabitants, the 8-foot-tall Na’avi, are more in tune… Read More »

Tagged With: clones, colonization, Darwinian evolution, exploitation, Forest People, Reef People, sequel, sky people

HALLOWEEN ENDS

October 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HALLOWEEN ENDS

HALLOWEEN ENDS fulfills its promise to take the battle between Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (unknown shape played by James Jude Courtney) to its limits. Boasting four writers, including director and purveyor of the franchise reboot, David Gordon Green, this excursion takes us, alas, into muddled waters. Myers, on the loose since… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, callow and sensitive youth, finale, gurgling blood, James Dean-esque anguish, sequel

HOCUS POCUS 2

September 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

HOCUS POCUS 2

If you were even mildly enchanted, amused, chilled, or any combination of those three, by the original HOCUS POCUS, I beg you to avoid the sequel at all costs. It is a travesty of a flick, and an insult to that darkly whimsical tale of 29 years ago. To remind you, it introduced us to… Read More »

Tagged With: black-flame candle, costume contest, Halloween, ritual, Salem, sequel, witches

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

July 8, 2022 By 1 Comment

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

It’s not that THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER is unwatchable. Quite the contrary. The special effects are stupendously unrestrained. The story is adorable, leaning towards a good-natured spoof of superhero movies as practiced in the 2020s. The performances can’t be faulted, even if Christian Bale as the god-hating ex-acolyte out for revenge is far darker, and… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, New Asgard, revnge, screaming goats, sequel, Stage 4 cancer, tourist attraction

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

July 2, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

There is a great deal of mileage to be had with characters as intrinsically adorable the Minions. And MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU takes it as far as it can go with a script that wobbles as uncertainly as Otto, the most loyal and least competent of little yellow creatures, does on the steep streets… Read More »

Tagged With: 1976, disco inferno, Dr. Nefario, kung fu, origin story, San Francisco, sequel, Vicious Six

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

June 9, 2022 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

At two hours and twenty-six minutes, JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION is as hefty as the ginormous terrestrial behemoths that feature prominently in it, and it is just as ungainly. It lumbers along using the intertia of its sheer mass to propel along a story that is as dedicated to calling out classics as it is to… Read More »

Tagged With: corgi-sized locusts, dinosaur, gentetically modified crops, hissy fit, industrial farming, paleontologist, raptor-whisperer, sequel, therapsid

TOP GUN : MAVERICK

May 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

TOP GUN : MAVERICK

I don’t know if TOP GUN:MAVERICK holds the record for the time elapsed between the original and the sequel, but if waiting over three decades results in a film as terrific as this, I hope filmmakers everywhere will at least consider taking their own sweet time when making sequels. This is an adrenalin-junkie’s fantasy, tightly… Read More »

Tagged With: buff physique, cockiness, dogfight, g-force, Mach 10, Mach 9, medula oblongata, navy, sequel

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