I like Allison Janney. What’s not to like about her? She’s one of the most versatile actors we have working now. I don’t like Lou, her latest movie currently streaming on Netflix where she falls into the badassery cinema world that Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver helped pioneer but falls short of being as memorableContinue reading “‘Lou’ Will Lose Viewers In Drab Pace”
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‘The Princess Bride’ At 35 – Inconceivable
When The Princess Bride opened in late September 1987, it was a modest success but nowhere near the success one might think. Produced on a budget of $16 million, it didn’t even make twice that much, just about $30.9 million. So, why has it become so popular over the years? Maybe it’s because it’s aContinue reading “‘The Princess Bride’ At 35 – Inconceivable”
Louise Fletcher Made Nurse Ratched One Of Cinema’s Best Villains
Mildred Ratched, the antagonist of the Oscar-winning movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest never brandishes a gun or sword. She never orders the mass killing of innocent people. She doesn’t punch, slap, kick or physically harm anyone in the movie. She rarely ever screams or yells. No, Nurse Ratched is a more menacing villain.Continue reading “Louise Fletcher Made Nurse Ratched One Of Cinema’s Best Villains”
‘Vengeance’ Tries To Be ‘Only Murders In Texas’ But Only Shows Dated Stereotypes
A movie like Vengeance is one of those movies you see all over the place being advertised for about a week before it’s in theaters and then it’s quickly pulled and after a while you’d find it in Redbox (or back in the olden days Blockbuster and Hollywood Video). Since it’s distributed through Focus FeaturesContinue reading “‘Vengeance’ Tries To Be ‘Only Murders In Texas’ But Only Shows Dated Stereotypes”
‘The Good Son’ Focuses On The Mind Of A Young Sociopath
Warning: This post contains spoilers. By the time The Good Son hit theaters on this date, Sept. 24, 1993, Macaulay Culkin’s star was already starting to fade a little. It wasn’t because he wan’t bankable. It was because his father was making things just to difficult in Hollywood. In the five years, he had goneContinue reading “‘The Good Son’ Focuses On The Mind Of A Young Sociopath”
‘L.A. Confidential’ Still Makes The Bust
Warning: This post contains spoilers about this movie. If you haven’t seen it, please be warned before reading ahead. About three-fourths into L.A. Confidential, the character of Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is fatally shot by Capt. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell). The scene comes without much warning and happens so fast, you realize theContinue reading “‘L.A. Confidential’ Still Makes The Bust”
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Is An Appropriate Title
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a fitting title for a movie so absurdist in its tone and delivery it borders between genius filmmaking and sloppy pretentiousness. And I know I’m going to anger all the film nerds with this review but I liked the movie just enough to sit through it again in theContinue reading “‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Is An Appropriate Title”
‘Day Shift’ Gets The Job Done
A movie like Day Shift isn’t wanting to win any awards nor bedazzle film students. There’s a time when movies are made just for mindless entertainment. They usually get two and a half stars on average from film critics who can’t fully recommend them, but can’t outright denounce them. Movies are about entertainment and thereContinue reading “‘Day Shift’ Gets The Job Done”
‘The Game’ Plays You, The Viewer
I know it sounds like a boring Yakov Smirnoff joke. “In America, you play The Game. In Soviet Russia, The Game plays you.” But that’s exactly what it does. Coming from David Fincher as only his third movie following the great thriller Se7en, this is an entirely different movie that seems like a carbon copyContinue reading “‘The Game’ Plays You, The Viewer”
‘Pinocchio’ Is Eye-Dazzling But Wooden
Robert Zemeckis is one of the few directors who’s able to do the best with special effects as well as the regular story. His movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit set the standard in its form. There has been a mixture of live-action and animation before but you could always tell it was actors in aContinue reading “‘Pinocchio’ Is Eye-Dazzling But Wooden”
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