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…
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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…
First Rate Script, Career Best Hugh Jackman Highlight Corey Finley’s ‘Bad Education’
‘Bad Education’ Review by William Hume Hugh Jackman is a good actor, but just how great is he? I often wonder as I marked his previous Best Performance in Prisoners seven years ago. That performance was all unbridled rage but this here is the complete opposite; subtle and internal. Hugh plays a man of many…
Review: ‘The Invisible Man’ finds strength in Men telling stories about Women
Timely subtext + textbook filmmaking techniques + modern technology = an effective thriller.
The Rise of Skywalker Mortally Wounds the Star Wars Myth with Corporate Mediocrity
Mission Statement: The Rise of Skywalker is a poorly made film. Considering the level of resources involved and the level of polish present in previous Disney Star Wars’, this is a significant comedown in terms of filmmaking and craft and one of the worst in the mainline series. A product of the design by committee…
‘Joker’ Review: Clown Car Cabbie
Director/ Co-writer: Todd Phillips/ Writer: Scott Silver/ Starring: Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix / Producer: Bradley Cooper/ Cinematography: Lawrence Sher Joker is Taxi Driver meets The King of Comedy set in the Batman universe. It is less violent, more expensive, modern and thus perhaps phoney, and equally intermittently dull. This is not a funfilm. It…
“Far From Home” is a solid if so-so Spider-Man film
Budget: $160 Million One of the earliest posts I made about Spider-Man on this website is that his introduction into the MCU would be the catalyst for its ruination. I was premature, but after viewing Spider-Man: Far From Home I’m still not entirely sure I was wrong. “[T]he most generous thing you can say about…
With ‘Dumbo’, Disney Gives and Gets the Film It Expected
Director: Tim Burton Writer: Ehren Kruger Music: Danny Elfman Production Design: Richard Heinrichs Dumbo may be remembered by film historians as the film that was released during the takeover of 21st Century Fox. Itself a movie about corporate buyers taking over a struggling enterprise, the beautifully romanticized film flopped at the box-office after costing a…
Lost Review Case 102:”Gravity”
A previous post I never finished.
Netflix Dishes out Another Boilerplate Romcom With ‘Always Be My Maybe’
What does Always Be My Maybe mean? To me it sounds like a side-chick or whatever the male equivalent is of somebody being the second choice in an otherwise solid relationship. For Sasha Tran (comedian Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park) there’s no maybe about it. After being raised as childhood friends they awkwardly…
Sightly Monsters, Unseemly Characters in “Godzilla King of the Monsters”
Plot: A bunch of ancient monsters awaken to fight Godzilla, who is already here, and humans pretend to matter. Cast: Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Ken Watanabe, Charles Dance, Sally Hawkins, Thomas Middleditch, Bradley Whitford, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Director, Writer, Producer: (co-writer/ director) Michael Dougherty, (written by) Zach Shields, Max Borenstein (story by),…
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