A movie like Identity draws its inspiration from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. A character even references it at one point. And why not? Most thrillers/horrors owe some debt to Christie and what she did to help the genre. But this movie has a twist that is so good that when you thinkContinue reading “‘Identity’ Has A Great Look”
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Comedy Troupe Search For ‘Treasure Of Foggy Mountain,’ Find Off-Color Humor
I had never heard of Please Don’t Destroy before watching their movie The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. But their brand of humor seems to be common to a lot of movies that have becoming out. They mostly bust each others balls for a 90-minutes movie, telling dirty jokes but still remain good friends at theContinue reading “Comedy Troupe Search For ‘Treasure Of Foggy Mountain,’ Find Off-Color Humor”
Leave Behind ‘Leave The World Behind’
A movie like Leave the World Behind suffers the same fate that Bird Box had that it had a great set up to a final act that feels like someone trying to rush everything. It’s like they filmed the movie in chronological order and ran out of money with 75-80 percent filmed and just decidedContinue reading “Leave Behind ‘Leave The World Behind’”
‘The Creator’ Doles Out Same Old Story
There’s been a lot of talk of artificial intelligence in the last few years with deep fakes and even pictures that look like they’re the real deal. There are numerous pictures online of supposed people who have never existed but they look like they’re flesh and bone. A movie like The Creator is one ofContinue reading “‘The Creator’ Doles Out Same Old Story”
‘May December’ May Somber But Still Leaves Some To Remember
Mary Kay Letourneau died in the summer of 2020 when Covid-19 was still a huge issue. Yet, she didn’t pass away from that but colorectal cancer. The image of a blonde woman teacher in her 30s who looks like she could be anyone’s teacher from small-town America is what made the case one of those thingsContinue reading “‘May December’ May Somber But Still Leaves Some To Remember”
‘House Of Usher’ Falls Under The Weight Of Its Own Execution
I’ve loved Edgar Allen Poe ever since I was a kid. Lately, he’s gotten a little bit of a renaissance with the adaptation of The Lighthouse and being a main character in The Pale Blue Eyes. And Sylvester Stallone has even been working in recent years to get a biopic made. Actually, he’s been workingContinue reading “‘House Of Usher’ Falls Under The Weight Of Its Own Execution”
They Say “Never Forget 9/11” But Also “Forget About Jan. 6”
“It was a peaceful protest.” That’s the same mantra that has been spread for the past three years. On Jan. 6, 2021, many people stormed the U.S. Capitol Building with the intent to overthrow the certification of the Electoral Votes. There might have been some country bumpkins from the Tennessee/Kentucky borders in D.C. and suburbanitesContinue reading “They Say “Never Forget 9/11” But Also “Forget About Jan. 6””
‘Eye See You’ Coded But Has Some Life
Like most people, I spent my youth hanging out in the aisles of video rental places like Hollywood and Blockbuster. One day, I came across a shelf that had VHS and DVD copies of Eye See You starring Sylvester Stallone and wondered “How did I miss this?” I still read Entertainment Weekly, before the writersContinue reading “‘Eye See You’ Coded But Has Some Life”
‘Finestkind’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches
Prior to becoming an Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker, Brian Helgeland spent his youth off the coast of New Bedford, Mass., fishing for scallops. He grew up in the area, lived there and worked around the blue-collar fishermen who have scruffy beards, haven’t bathed in a week, swear like sailors and return to port to drinkContinue reading “‘Finestkind’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches”
‘The Holdovers’ Is A Return To Great Form For Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne seems to be in an unintentional rivalry with Wes Anderson on who can make the most quirky movies about the most unrealistic people stuck in the truly realistic settings. Payne seems a little more hardcore than Anderson, willing to go the extra mile to be more outrageous to tell a story. He doesn’tContinue reading “‘The Holdovers’ Is A Return To Great Form For Alexander Payne”
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