I commend Marvel Studios and their parent company, Disney, for not recasting the role of T’Challa following the death of Chadwick Boseman in 2020. He had played the role in four movies and made it his own. It would’ve been wrong in every way to recast it. That being said, I feel Black Panther: WakandaContinue reading “‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Has Its Moments But Stuck In Phase Four Malaise”
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Toxic Masculinity On Full Display In ‘The Most Hated Man On The Internet’
I may have heard the name Hunter Moore over a decade ago, but I had forgotten the whole scandal at the center of Netflix’s three-part docuseries The Most Hated Man on the Internet. I had seen people like Hunter Moore before. I had gone to school with them. I had worked with them. Moore wasContinue reading “Toxic Masculinity On Full Display In ‘The Most Hated Man On The Internet’”
‘Bloody’ Good Remake Of Valentine Horror/Slasher Classic
They say the best way to criticize a movie is to make a better movie. No one was calling for a remake of the 1981 horror/slasher classic My Bloody Valentine. But as the old saying goes, “What’s old is new again.” The 3-D format had become popular again around the end of the 2000s andContinue reading “‘Bloody’ Good Remake Of Valentine Horror/Slasher Classic”
‘Pamela: A Love Story’ Is A Candid, Intimate Eye-Opener
Pamela: A Love Story reminds me of The Girl Next Door, a 1999 documentary focusing on the life of porn actress Stacy Valentine. Pamela Anderson was just like Stacy Valentine and probably many, many other women who grew up in towns and communities where people go to church on Sunday and turn July 4 inContinue reading “‘Pamela: A Love Story’ Is A Candid, Intimate Eye-Opener”
‘You People’ Is Offensive To All People
You People wants to be a modern day Millennial version of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. We already got this similar reversal premise with the 2005 Guess Who with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher in a more sitcom setting where a white man is dating a black woman and the Mac plays the father whoContinue reading “‘You People’ Is Offensive To All People”
‘Fire Of Love’ Shows Us The Spark That Kept A Couple Together Till The End
Fire of Love is a bittersweet documentary about two people who found something they were both passionate about that it only made sense for them to fall in love and they would be together for the rest of their lives. Maurice and Katia Krafft were two 20-something French students who met studying at the UniversityContinue reading “‘Fire Of Love’ Shows Us The Spark That Kept A Couple Together Till The End”
‘Tar’ Insists Upon Itself As A Bloated, Dull Vanity Project That Screams Oscar Bait
A movie like Tar reminds me of a cross between Black Swan and Whiplash. It’s two and a half hours of a movie about a very unlikable person. But for an actress like Cate Blanchett, she’s used to making these types of movies. Everything about it screams vanity project for Oscar bait. If you’ve seenContinue reading “‘Tar’ Insists Upon Itself As A Bloated, Dull Vanity Project That Screams Oscar Bait”
‘The Woman King’ Wants To Be ‘Black Panther’ Meets ‘Braveheart’ But It’s More Akin To ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’
I’m going to be blunt. Just because a movie is about a subject matter, it doesn’t automatically mean it should be great. Movies like Brokeback Mountain, Philadelphia, 12 Years a Slave and the recent The Women King all have flaws, but they take on a subject matter that is hardly ever addressed the way itContinue reading “‘The Woman King’ Wants To Be ‘Black Panther’ Meets ‘Braveheart’ But It’s More Akin To ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’”
‘Transylvania 6-5000’ May Not Be The Best To Phone Home About
Every now and again, a movie is made for a perculiar reason. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was made by the Quaker Oats Company because they had obtained the rights to the use of Willy Wonka for a candybar line. As it turned out, the candybars melted too quickly and the line flopped. ButContinue reading “‘Transylvania 6-5000’ May Not Be The Best To Phone Home About”
‘Movie 43’ Deserves A Second Look
When Movie 43 hit theaters this week 10 years ago, none of the cast promoted it. It wasn’t reviewed ahead of time for critics. Yet the posted boosted the “biggest cast ever assembled.” Granted, it had a lot going for it. Two Oscar Winners (Halley Berry and Kate Winslet) and action heroes like Gerard ButlerContinue reading “‘Movie 43’ Deserves A Second Look”
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