At one point during this film the lead character is described as schizophrenic. Unfortunately, that’s the problem with this movie. It has a great deal of merit as a love letter to cinema and the business of movie exhibition, yet […]
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The Fabelmans (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
As Steven Spielberg is my all-time favorite film director, it would seem natural that his newest movie, The Fabelmans, which is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of his childhood and teenage years, would almost automatically become one of my favorite films. But […]
Continue reading »Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
The title for this sequel is unwieldy, and I dislike onions no matter what form. That said, I feel that this sequel is better than the original and a wickedly amusing good time. Rain Johnson’s story finds detective Benoit Blanc […]
Continue reading »Warriors of Future (2022) ☆ ☆
I’m open to watching science fiction from other countries and this is an ambitious futuristic monster movie made in Hong Kong which is making the rounds. It’s an action movie made in the grunge style of a lot of post-apocalyptic […]
Continue reading »The King’s Man (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
It’s been a year since the origin story for Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman features was released, but I finally watched it just yesterday. It has the same formula of highly-orchestrated action sequences and ribald profanity that made the other two so startling, […]
Continue reading »The Menu (2022) ☆ ☆
Some movies are quite impressive or impactful when first seen, only to fall apart when they are thought about later. The Menu is definitely one of those. I was engrossed during the viewing, wondering just what the heck was happening, […]
Continue reading »Say Hey, Willie Mays! (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Who was the greatest baseball player of all time? According to this documentary, it was the great Giants / Mets centerfielder Willie Mays. The host says it multiple times and Mr. Mays declines to demur. That status may be so […]
Continue reading »She Said (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
She Said joins a long line of splendid dramas regarding journalism, current events and social causes — films like Five Star Final (1932), Deadline U. S. A. (1952), All the President’s Men (1976) and Spotlight (2015). These films matter because they reinforce the importance […]
Continue reading »Devotion (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
There have only been a bit more than one hundred English language feature films made about the Korean War; about half that many if one strictly chooses combat stories. I should know; I wrote a book about this topic (Korean […]
Continue reading »Bones and All (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
I have always argued that good movies can be about anything — even, in this case, cannibalism. The act of eating other people is certainly repulsive, yet there is a certain horrifying beauty to this story, which I think treats […]
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