The most important thing for a belated comedy sequel to get right is the vibe. The recent Bill and Ted 3, also got this right. These films understand if your movie feels like it belongs, less of a burden will be on the the laughter. Eddie Murphy is long past having to prove himself and…
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Is ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ in 2020 a Comedown or an Uplift?
This movie was supposed to come out November 1st, 2020. And yet despite the extra time the special effects are bad, the writing sloppy and the film edit drags. I can’t explain how the film came in initially hot and highly rated. Maybe during the pandemic critics were clamoring for anything. With positive reviews like…
How Much Soul Has Disney-Pixar Got?
Director: Pete Docter (Inside Out, Up, Monsters Inc.) Kemp Powers Writer: Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers Music By: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Jazz Compositions and Arrangements by: Jon Baptiste Soul has a bad screenplay. Initial presumptions of the film being exactly like Inside Out plus Coco are spot on. With unclear story rules and…
‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ is One of the Best Films of the Year!
It’s like if Paul Thomas Anderson made a horror movie. Around this time four years ago, I sang the praises of Don’t Breathe. A sleeper thriller hit, the kind of genre success I only catch on Home Video at the end of the year after everyone sings its praises. The Wolf of Snow Hollow lives…
RE-ƎVALUATION: TENET enjoyable more AT-HOME versus IN-THEATERS
Watching it In-Theaters I was but The Protagonist, but now I am Neil. I worked very hard on my TENET REVIEW. Considering I made a calculated risk to go see it during the pandemic and worked a month to edit in in video format. I thought it was too impenetrable with a pile of nothing…
Even on his first film, Spielberg’s genius was on full display. ‘The Sugarland Express’ (1974)
A former 26 Year-Old Reviews a former 26 Year-old’s Theatrical Debut. This director really likes action I thought as I watched The Sugarland Express. There’s a generous amount of car chases in this film considering how anti-violent the characters are. You have a Police Captain leading the chase that hasn’t shot anyone in his 18…
Charlie Kaufman and Ian Reid help me “think of ending things”
“I feel I owe a debt of gratitude to the algorithm.” Kingston author Ian Reid said upon reviewing the successful adaptation of his work, the latest head trip from Academy Award Winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is my brother’s favourite screenwriter though I always preferred Kaufman’s twin brother Donald. Most of his tales never venture…
Mulan is ‘Trite Shite’
3 redeeming qualities of Mulan: The Aspect Ratio, the cool witch makeup, and the casting of Tzi Ma as the father who adds decency to a film that doesn’t offer much. Out of all the Disney remakes, the only one I really like is Cinderella. Rebuilding a 65 year old film whose politics and motivations…
TƎИƎT REVIEW | “ИO⅃AИ MƎƎTS ENTROPY “
“We live in a Twilight World.” “And there are no friends at dusk.” It has been six months since theatres closed. The longest gap in moviegoing for me in twenty years. Yet it does not feel long ago my father and I went to see The Invisible Man. Not a bad film to go out…
You Should Have Left (2020)
I have previously written only two reviews of films as they were released on video: Dumbo and Fifty Shades of Grey. This is inline with those. A family moves into a house and weird things start to happen. Accomplished films with this premise in recent memory; Insidious, Paranormal Activity, and Sinister have all been produced…
Counterpoint: “Kingdom of Heaven” Director’s Cut Is Not the ‘Holy Holy’ Film Nerds Think
A beautiful but imperfect film that is good not great. It seems these days with film criticism, that every movie either has to be great or terrible. In the fifteen years since Kingdom of Heaven was released, film criticism has grown its own sub-economy. A Collider article recently shared to Reddit went viral about Kingdom…
‘Extraction’ is here for Netflix to Extract you from the real world for 116 Minutes
Newton Thomas Sigel is in my opinion a very talented cinematographer. He lent a unique look and creative eye to the otherwise by the numbers Bohemian Rhapsody, and staged some memorable images like the crane down newspaper shot in Superman Returns or Jean Grey parting the waters in X2: X-Men United. Yet he is not…
