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INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI)

July 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI)

One of the many delightful things about Quentin Dupieux’s films is that they do not waste our time. They are a marvel of economy while at the same time seriously introducing a wealth of bemusing ideas in their tightly written, superbly absurd plots. And so it is with INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAI VRAI), a… Read More »

Tagged With: France, middle class, recoil, semi-legal medical procedue, time travel

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

April 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

The stakes have been raised so many times with event flicks that, when approaching one, hope is always tempered with experience about what to expect, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson. With AVENGERS: ENDGAME, though, hope wins out. The spectacle is everything it should be, and the story, of necessity a meandering thing, is nonetheless sustained by… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel, superhero, time travel

FUTURE ’38

December 26, 2017 By 1 Comment

FUTURE ’38

There is a dividing line for those contemplating a viewing of FUTURE ’38. It has to do with wordplay. If you love puns you will be charmed by the whole-hearted impudence of this self-conscious parody.  If not, best to move along, though you will miss a fine excursion into dead-pan drollery. As premise, we have… Read More »

Tagged With: pun, romance, Sci-fi, spoof, time travel

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

September 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

I have not read the eponymous novel on which MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Is based, but a quick check of the of the Wikipedia entry for it reveals that for the screen adaptation many of the characters have been modified and plot point changed. This is not uncommon, and when the original source… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, grandfather-grandson, monsters, needle-like teeth, Peculiars, supernatural, time travel

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

May 27, 2016 By 1 Comment

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

There could be many reasons to eschew the story that Lewis Carroll himself wrote about Alice and her adventures through the looking glass. Alas, Disney’s ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS does not find any of them.  There is a perfect madness in that book that the script by Linda Woolverton fails to capture. Instead we… Read More »

Tagged With: Alice, daddy issues, Lewis Carroll, sequel, sister issues, time travel, Wonderland

A Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

July 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A  Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

Inflated and grandiose, TERMINATOR GENISYS rethinks the Terminator mythos by coming up the novel notion that changing the past might have more than the intended repercussions. Hence, when the John Conner (Jason Clarke, near left) in this timeline sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney, far left) back to 1984 Los Angeles to save John’s mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke),… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, franchise reboot, John Conner, Kyle Reese, Los Angeles, narrative, robot, San Francisco, Sarah Conner, Sci-fi, Skynet, T-1000, T-800, Terminator, time travel

PROJECT ALMANAC Flunks

February 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment

PROJECT ALMANAC Flunks

After being delayed delayed half a year or so, PROJECT ALMANAC (aka WELCOME TO YESTERDAY and ALMANAC) has finally crept onto movie screens only to prove that waiting a year for its release would not have been nearly long enough. The trope of time travel and second chances has never been rendered in a more… Read More »

Tagged With: Allen Evangelista, inertia, Jonny Weston, Physics, Sam Lerner, Sci-fi, science fiction, tedium, teens in danger, temporal displacement, time travel

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

EDGE OF TOMORROW

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE EDGE OF TOMORROW is everything a cracking good action/adventure/sci-fi film should be. Fluidly directed, ferociously acted, and intelligently written, it even takes the time to consider such lofty issues as the ennui of immortality and the nature of reality as it blows up nifty monsters from outer space. Blows them up real good. It’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Emily Blunt, movie, science fiction, time travel, Tom Cruise

A SOUND OF THUNDER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A SOUND OF THUNDER

A SOUND OF THUNDER isn’t just a bad movie, it is one that is so hopelessly ridiculous, so relentlessly inept, that it sullies the art of filmmaking as a whole. It may have even knocked the concept of art itself down a few notches. That is also mangles a classic Ray Bradbury short story only… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate time lines, Chicago, dinosaur, evolution, time travel, tourism

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