While I have been a big fan of the Oscars since the 1970s I have paid less attention to them in recent years. I cannot say why, except that some of the nominated films have not piqued my interest. This […]
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Madame Web (2024) ☆ 1/2
There must be an awful lot of comic book material, weird characters with weird superpowers and such, which has not been adapted to film yet. This is one such adaptation, I think, and one which really should have been avoided. […]
Continue reading »Labyrinth (1986) ☆ 1/2 (review 1)
I saw this 1986 fantasy for the first time this week, as it was meant to be seen, in a theater. Thanks to Fathom Events, certain films of the past are returning to the screen for limited runs each month. […]
Continue reading »Ordinary Angels (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is one of those “you would never believe this story if it weren’t true” movie stories which inspire people to write, produce and act in them because those stories have dramatic resonance precisely because they did happen, against all […]
Continue reading »Anyone But You (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
A surprise hit late last year is this romantic, or perhaps unromantic comedy, which seems to have caught everyone unawares. It was re-released for Valentine’s Day with a brief but very enjoyable section of bloopers, outtakes and more singing by […]
Continue reading »Lisa Frankenstein (2024) ☆ ☆
This seems to be the season for horny reanimated people, what with Poor Things and now Lisa Frankenstein, both of which detail with sexual maturity and, well, reconstituted people. Why? I have no idea. I didn’t really understand Poor Things and I don’t […]
Continue reading »Past Lives (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
There are no aliens or robots or alien robots or time travel or superheroes or apocalypses or multiverses in Past Lives — although some of the same themes about life that appear in those science-fiction and fantasy stories can be found […]
Continue reading »Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) ☆ ☆
The alien robots of the “Transformers” universe are back, and they have all new allies and enemies with whom they can fight. A whole new cast of humans is also provided, partly to prove to the Autobots that the human […]
Continue reading »Fear the Night (2023) ☆ ☆
There’s no cinematic surprise in the thriller Fear the Night because most everything is telegraphed ahead of time and the plotting offers nothing new or very deep. The surprise is that this rather pedestrian thriller is written and directed by Neil […]
Continue reading »His 100th Birthday, February 19, 2024
Today is Lee Marvin’s birthday. He would have been 100 today, had he not succumbed to a sudden heart attack in 1987, so I thought I should take this opportunity to celebrate his show business career, which lasted from 1951 […]
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