There might not be any time frame for a movie like Soul Man ever to be made without it being controversial. But that’s part of the reason the movie works…and doesn’t work. White people have appropriated every other culture, the controversy over Kendrick Lamar at the recent Super Bowl halftime show as well as BeyonceContinue reading “‘Soul Man’ Works And Doesn’t Work To Find The Right Groove”
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The Curious Case Of ‘So I Married An Axe Murderer’
In Hollywood, you’re only as hot as your last movie. Very few actors and filmmakers have the clout to bounce back from a disaster of movie so easily in the grand scheme of things. After the surprise hit Wayne’s World released during February of 1992, Mike Myers was a hot commodity. So, it was noContinue reading “The Curious Case Of ‘So I Married An Axe Murderer’”
‘Trigger Warning’ Has Hits And Misfires
A movie like Trigger Warning is the type of B-movie schlock you’d run across in a video rental place 20 years ago and wonder why someone like Jessica Alba would do it. And then you realize you hadn’t seen Jessica Alba in anything for a while. This is her first movie in five years sinceContinue reading “‘Trigger Warning’ Has Hits And Misfires”
‘The Substance’ Mixes Dark Comedy Body Horror And Social Commentary
Getting old is something that happens to a lot of people, but people still like to look young. Male pattern baldness and grey hairs are just two of the things that can make us look older than what we are. But even Hollywood actors and celebrities face the scorn of executives who really just wantContinue reading “‘The Substance’ Mixes Dark Comedy Body Horror And Social Commentary”
‘Pale Rider’ Is Eastwood’s Supernatural Western Masterpiece
Clint Eastwood has never done a real straight horror movie. His first movie as a lab tech in one single scene Return of the Creature was more of a monster movie. Play Misty for Me and Tightrope are more erotic psychological thrillers. And even the Dirty Harry movies are more focused on action thrills thanContinue reading “‘Pale Rider’ Is Eastwood’s Supernatural Western Masterpiece”
‘Slingshot’ Slowly Backfires
Slingshot comes from the mind of Nathan Parker, the son of famed filmmaker Alan Parker, whose first credited movie Moon was an impressive science-fiction movie in which Sam Rockwell plays a maintenance man at automated mining facility on the moon who discovers someone who seems to be a more able version of himself. It justContinue reading “‘Slingshot’ Slowly Backfires”
‘Emilia Perez’ Suffers From Its Own Identity Crisis
There’s three ways to make a movie with the focal point around a transgender person – the good, the bad and the ugly. In 2018, A Fantastic Woman won the Best Foreign Language Oscar and it focused on the life of a woman who was the partner of a deceased older man and became criticizedContinue reading “‘Emilia Perez’ Suffers From Its Own Identity Crisis”
‘Fallen’ Is A B-Movie With A-List Cast That Has Risen To Cult Classic Status
Sometimes, a movie like Fallen comes along that has an impressive cast with an fascinating premise, you just wonder what the hell went wrong. Well, if you look at the time frame in which the movie was release, that can answer a lot of the questions. It was released in the middle of January 1998Continue reading “‘Fallen’ Is A B-Movie With A-List Cast That Has Risen To Cult Classic Status”
‘Back In Action’ Lacking In Much Action And Originality
Back in Action had become more famous for the behind the scenes real-life drama that probably had the rest of the cast and crew worried if it could be finished at all. Jamie Foxx had been hospitalized in April 2023 while working on the movie in Atlanta. His family and close friends did a greatContinue reading “‘Back In Action’ Lacking In Much Action And Originality”
‘Super/Man’ Documentary Will Make You Believe Anybody Can Soar High
During one of the interviews in the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story that hits hard is when Glenn Close says she thinks Robin Williams would still be alive if Reeve was still alive. While Williams was suffering from Lewy body dementia at the time of his death, I will have to agree with herContinue reading “‘Super/Man’ Documentary Will Make You Believe Anybody Can Soar High”
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