The Great American Action Hero is growing old. I mean this literally, figuratively, metaphorically. The genre dominated the 80’s with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris and Willis all kicking foreign asses with a machete planted firmly in their hand so they may…
The most enchanting aspect of Disney’s new version of Cinderella is that it is NOT a reboot!!! Cheers heard around the kingdom! Nor is it a reimagining or a reduxing or a Tim Burtoning. Cinderella isn’t a mistreated young man…
I want to let you in on a little secret. Back in 1985, I time traveled to 2015 and got a book that told me all the Academy Award winners. Every category. Called Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.…
I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror! I don’t want to write a review of Fifty Shades of Grey and resort to the internet standard of picking it apart with a bunch of pithy, dick-ish remarks instead of…
This might be it for the Wachowskis. Jupiter Ascending makes their career descent complete. The former wunderkinds have produced not one hit in over a decade with a constant output of bad movies that cost hundreds of millions and fail.…
Some films want so very bad to be prestigious. It should be relatively easy. Get yourself a nice, deep in December release date. Some heavy material soaking with gravitas that demands some shedding of at least a half a bucket…
Oh, Michael Mann… You can’t tell because disapproving looks do not translate through the written word but I am gazing upon my computer screen with the most disfavoring of expressions. Mann, a unique filmmaker of masculine cinema (The Insider, Heat…
Watching Selma evoked many thoughts, one of the strongest being that I am an uneducated dolt with the intelligence of a well-crafted leather shoe. I should know this story. The great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his cause descending…
There is not one possibility that I will be the only one to refer to the new P.T. Anderson as Incoherent Vice instead of its proper title. But I’m going to start with that regardless because viewing the film had…
If you loved Dumb and Dumber then you going to like Dumb and Dumber To. How’s that for a tagline? And while it doesn’t ring high praise, it’s probably true. Given that an unforgiving 20 year length of time has…