My first issue with this new iteration of the Michael Myers saga is its title. Really? Couldn’t’ they have made it something different, seeing as it ignores all the other Myers stories except for the first one? Naming it simply Halloween […]
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Skyscraper (2018) ☆ ☆
This often unbelievable action movie combines elements of The Towering Inferno and Die Hard, as a Hong Kong skyscraper burns out of control as a massacre and robbery takes place elsewhere in the building and vicinity. Technology is presented as the reason d’etre […]
Continue reading »Tag (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Journalism can produce epic entertainment. Remember All the President’s Men and Spotlight. Now there is Tag! Based on a Wall Street Journal article about childhood friends keeping a game of “tag” alive for thirty years, this movie has taken that idea and run wild with […]
Continue reading »A Simple Favor (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
One of the more unusual films I’ve seen lately is A Simple Favor, which introduces us to two strong female characters who then run rampant all over their complicated, dangerous story. Several of the important supporting characters are also female, making […]
Continue reading »Colette (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Colette is the thematic flip side of The Wife; this story shows how a woman can write, ostensibly under a man’s name, later to reveal to the world that she, indeed, is the true author of popular works. In The Wife that […]
Continue reading »Crazy Rich Asians (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
A blockbuster romantic film about a woman who learns her boyfriend is impossibly rich, this wishful but by-the-numbers situational comedy is commercially successful chiefly because of its casting: it is the rare film to be about Asian Americans and to […]
Continue reading »Tea with the Dames (2018) ☆ ☆
As documentaries go, Tea with the Dames (which is also known as Nothing Like a Dame) is pretty tame. It follows four acclaimed British actresses as they spend a weekend at one’s estate, talking about life and love and career. Dames Eileen […]
Continue reading »The Bookshop (2018) ☆ ☆
This is another small-scale independent film about ordinary people that has captured viewer attention; it has been nominated for and won several international prizes since its film festival debut in 2017. I cannot say that I share in the acclaim […]
Continue reading »BlacKkKlansman (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Some movies attempt — and succeed — in mixing questionable content into their entertainment motifs; content which can be offensive, ultra-violent, racist or upsetting in other ways. It is almost always done for effect, rather than purely for shock value, […]
Continue reading »Operation Finale (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Movies about history work best when they can detail the personal stories behind the headlines. In this case, the headline is that in 1960 Isreaeli agents were able to apprehend Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and return him […]
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