The characters who are in The Whale are all suffering from their own guilt, depression and/or grief. Aside from a flashback to a scene at a beach, the entire movie is set in an apartment in an Idaho town near an unnamed college in 2016. This helps make the audience feel they are trapped inContinue reading “‘The Whale’ A Wonderful Study Of Grief, Guilt, Depression And Atonement”
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‘Knock At The Cabin’ Has Thrills But Never Rises Above B-Movie Feels
The biggest problem with Knock at the Cabin is that two of the characters we’re supposed to care the most of are never really fleshed out. This movie tries so hard to do so many things that I felt the actors in the said roles are never as indistinquishable. When a filmmaker does something toContinue reading “‘Knock At The Cabin’ Has Thrills But Never Rises Above B-Movie Feels”
‘A Man Called Otto’ Is Boomer White Savior Porn In “Feel Good Dramedy” Clothing
A movie like A Man Called Otto has been made before and probably going to be a rite de passage for many A-lister male actors for a while. Eventually, as they get older, they have to do the misanthropic crumudgeon role. Take Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt or Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino which thisContinue reading “‘A Man Called Otto’ Is Boomer White Savior Porn In “Feel Good Dramedy” Clothing”
‘The Outsiders’ At 40 Stays Gold
When Tulsa area teen S.E. Hinton got her first novel The Outsiders published in 1967, there were already concerns over the novel. The term “young adult novel” probably hadn’t entered into the literary world. Even Judy Blume hadn’t published a book yet. She had wrote it while still in high school as she was upsetContinue reading “‘The Outsiders’ At 40 Stays Gold”
‘In The Mouth Of Madness’ Spins A Tale Of Hallucinations, Monsters And Murder
For a while, John Carpenter seemed to be on fire. After a small start in the 1970s with Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13, he made Halloween in 1978 and spent the next 10 years banging out a movie almost every year, as well as the 1979 Elvis television movie, the first collaboration withContinue reading “‘In The Mouth Of Madness’ Spins A Tale Of Hallucinations, Monsters And Murder”
‘Tropic Thunder’ Sounds Off The Brutal Savagery Of Hollywood Filmmaking
One of the most popular topics among filmmakers is to poke fun at Hollywood. Sometimes, it works with movies like The Player and Bowfinger and sometimes it fails like most recently Babylon. As the TV show Community boldly said people grow tired of movies about making movies about making movies. But a movie like TropicContinue reading “‘Tropic Thunder’ Sounds Off The Brutal Savagery Of Hollywood Filmmaking”
‘Boston Strangler’ Lacks Thrills Of Investigative Journalism In Drab Movie
Watching Boston Strangler, you’d think the sun never shines in New England. And no one wears pastel colors at all. There’s so many drab and dull outdoor scenes of clouded skies, you’d think the movie was filmed in Siberia. Why couldn’t they just film this in black and white since everyone wears dark colors. It’sContinue reading “‘Boston Strangler’ Lacks Thrills Of Investigative Journalism In Drab Movie”
‘Triangle Of Sadness’ Is Lipstick On A Pig
Back when he was campaigning for President in 2008, Barack Obama once said, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” People thought he was referring to Sarah Palin who had made a lipstick comment earlier that year. Was he calling her a pig? Who knows? Who cares? Palin begat MichelleContinue reading “‘Triangle Of Sadness’ Is Lipstick On A Pig”
‘Wild Things’ At 25: How A Sleazy Movie Got So Many A-Listers And It Worked
When Wild Things hit theaters in 1998, it was the first day of Spring March 20 and the movie had numerous A-listers on the cast in a movie that includes greed, sex and murder. Wild Things seems like one of those movies you’d come across on Skinemax with Shannon Whirry, Shannon Tweed and Andrew StevensContinue reading “‘Wild Things’ At 25: How A Sleazy Movie Got So Many A-Listers And It Worked”
‘I Want To Dance With Somebody’ Never Finds Its Right Moves
It’s been more than 15 years since Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story pretty much parodied the musical biopic format. And after last year’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, you’d think some filmmakers would take a different approach. Whitney Houston passed away unexpectedly in the spring of 2012. She was only 48. Somehow, the rightContinue reading “‘I Want To Dance With Somebody’ Never Finds Its Right Moves”
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