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| DOORMAN, THE (2020) |
"This crew should be able to make something at least satisfyingly mediocre."
Jay Seaver says... "SCREENED VIA THE 2020 NIGHTSTREAM VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL: "The Doorman" was never going to be an all-time great movie within its genre - its ambitions just aren't that high - but it probably should have been a good one. The idea is familiar but solid, most of the cast has been good in something or other, and the director is not some anonymous worker bee. At worst, it should be an average bit of not-quite-theatrical action maybe brought down by some piece not being up to par, but instead, it's unimpressive all around, no single part being as good as it should." (more)
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| BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM |
"He's baaaack."
Rob Gonsalves says... "“I was tucking in my shirt” might just be the movie critique of the year. Then again, look at the year." (more)
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| HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING |
"He did something."
Rob Gonsalves says... "Almost everyone in the new documentary "Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something" smiles when talking about him, and Chapin himself, who died at 38 in a 1981 car wreck, is seldom seen in the movie without a smile." (more)
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| TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, THE |
"Good enough."
Rob Gonsalves says... "If the titular trial of the Chicago 7 hadn’t happened, writer-director Aaron Sorkin would’ve had to invent it." (more)
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| BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM |
"Tutar And The Monkey Man"
Peter Sobczynski says... "The problem with a number of movie comedies these days is that they start off amusingly enough (well, some of them do) and then tend to run out of steam after a while to the point where they are practically dragging themselves to the end credits. In the case of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make benefit Once glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (which will be referred to from here on in by only the first three words of that title), the unexpected and shot-in-secret sequel to the wildly popular 2006 shock comedy hit from Sacha Baron Cohen, it is perhaps only fitting that the formulation here is backwards. It starts off rather unpromisingly, spends the next hour going through a series of scenes that combine a few huge laughs with a good amount of aimlessness and then concludes with a final half-hour filled with sharp humor and genuinely outrageous moments, including one jaw-dropper that could well mark the final nail in the coffin for at least one particularly public and normally shameless public figure of note. (I will not go into this moment in any detail but, suffice it to say, if you want to experience it completely unawares, you should try to watch the film as soon as it drops on Amazon Prime this Friday because it will become the subject of much conversation once people experience it for themselves.)" (more)
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| OVER THE MOON |
"Kids may like it; adults may not be so impressed."
Jay Seaver says... "Glen Keane's job at Disney over three decades (most notably the 1990s) didn't exactly map to a specific one in live action, and you had to wait a little while to see his name in the credits but as the supervising animator and/or character designer for lead characters in "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas", and "Tarzan", he was in many ways as much the star of those movies as the more easily-referenced voice actors. Maybe that's why "Over the Moon" occasionally feels like an actor's first feature film as a director - the result of someone who has absorbed a lot by watching how others do it from his front row seat but still has that same focus - even though his old job is a much more direct overlap." (more)
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| REBECCA (2020) |
"Not bad at all, but why?"
Jay Seaver says... "It's been long enough since I've seen the Alfred Hitchcock version of "Rebecca" that it's hard to compare it to Ben Wheatley's new adaptation directly, but just knowing it exists and remembering that it's brilliant makes this one feel unnecessary. Lavishly shot as it is and despite it seldom actually falling below "pretty good", the original version can't help but loom over every decision Wheatley and company make here. Kind of amusing, I guess, given that this is "Rebecca" we're talking about, and I almost wonder if that meta-narrative amused the filmmakers throughout." (more)
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| LEAP |
"Certain sports cliches are universal, but so is the excitement of it."
Jay Seaver says... "Sports movies have the same problem as sports broadcasting in a lot of ways - particularly, in how both too much desire to make the results a reflection of one's chosen narrative and too much worship of the tough-love coach. Pair that up with a story meant to get the audience waving flags, and you can wind up with something deceptive and even damaging to young athletes looking for heroes. There are moments in "Leap" when the filmmakers seem very well aware of these shackles, even if they can't quite see their way from escaping them entirely. And it's not like they have to, because most sports stories worth telling have a great final stretch built-in." (more)
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SCREAMFEST LA (2020 EDITION)
by Erik Childress and Jay Seaver |
| "Los Angeles' Screamfest has been taking place from Oct. 6 to Oct. 15 this year and below is a sampling of some of its offerings. Watch this space for more to come." (more) |
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'THAT TALL DRINK OF WATER WITH THE SILVER SPOON UP HIS ASS.'
- Red, The Shawshank Redemption
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