I must confess I had never even heard of this film before my local art house picked it up, and had no idea what it might be. Actually, that situation is a wonderful way to experience a movie, for I […]
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Sully (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆
Some events seem destined for movie production; such is the case with “the Miracle on the Hudson,” the January 15, 2009 incident when pilots Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles successfully landed an airliner on the Hudson River after a […]
Continue reading »North by Northwest (1959) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
I love the fact that Cinépolis, a new movie theater company in my area (its big business is in Mexico), is showing revivals of classic movies once a week. Films like A Clockwork Orange, GoodFellas and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic North by Northwest. […]
Continue reading »War Dogs (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆
I expected to dislike this film; I didn’t like the Hangover films much (directed by Todd Phillips, who helms this one) and I have never been much of a fan of Jonah Hill. I was also wary of the premise, in […]
Continue reading »Morgan (2016) ☆ ☆
This exploration of artificial intelligence seems a year late and miles behind the parade, especially when compared with Ex Machina, the 2015 film with which it shares a similar structure and sensibility. Morgan is more of a conventional thriller than the […]
Continue reading »Jason Bourne (2016) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Matt Damon returns to the franchise for which he is most famous, embodying the lethal super-agent without much of a memory, in Jason Bourne. In some ways this movie can function as an introduction to the series, as it returns to […]
Continue reading »Hell or High Water (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆
Just as Bonnie and Clyde made poignant anti-heroes of its thrill seekers back in 1967, Hell or High Water attempts to create empathy for two brothers who rob several Texas banks in a modern tale of redemption and ruin. It largely succeeds. […]
Continue reading »Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) ☆ 1/2
Although Jason Statham is a charismatic performer, he is not seen to best advantage in this routine action film, desultorily directed by Dennis Gansel. Statham first essayed the role of hit man Arthur Bishop five years ago in The Mechanic, a […]
Continue reading »Indignation (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆
This movie surprised me in a way I did not expect: it qualifies as a Korean War film. That fact will not impress many people, I suppose, but it is the first one I’ve found in a decade. Others are […]
Continue reading »Anthropoid (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆
World War II was the defining event, if it can be labeled such, of the twentieth century. Nearly every country in the world became involved in one way or another, with some suffering horribly. One of those countries was Czechoslovakia, […]
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