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| KING RICHARD |
"Will power."
Rob Gonsalves says... "You may be forgiven, watching "King Richard," for wondering what exactly Richard Williams’ deal was. Was he a prophet or a damned lucky delusional?" (more)
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| GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE |
"Honestly not even that great as nostalgia."
Jay Seaver says... "There's a line, somewhere around 1978 or so, where folks on one side experienced the original "Ghostbusters" as a great, kind of crude big-budget comedy with a disappointing sequel in the same vein (maybe the first adult-skewing comedy their parents let them watch); on the other side, people who watched "The Real Ghostbusters" on Saturday mornings, had toys, games, comics, all sorts of stuff that goes with a light adventure franchise, even though most would circle back around to the original movie. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" is a movie very much for the latter audience, and that's fine - they buy more movie tickets, after all - but once the filmmakers went that route, they could have made a much better movie." (more)
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| HOUSE OF GUCCI |
"Gucci Gucci Ewww"
Peter Sobczynski says... "At a time when it feels as if the majority of the films put into production have little more on their minds than to offer additional ways of monetizing the intellectual properties of the mega-conglomerates that own them, the fact that there is still someone like Ridley Scott out there should be a cause for celebration for most cineastes. At 83, an age when most people in his line of work have been consigned to the Lifetime Achievement Award circuit, he is not only still turning out films at a ferocious pace but appears to be one of the very few working today who is still willing and able to produce large-scale films that are aimed primarily at an adult audience. He is a filmmaker who clearly swings for the fences every time he takes on a new project and while that has resulted in a number of great works over the years—I will presume that a list of his notable works will not be needed—the down side is that he has also missed by a mile quite a few times in the past, though at least his failures tend to be more intriguing than the better efforts of most other filmmakers that I could name. For example, last month’s “The Last Duel” was a muddled Middle Ages epic that recounted the events leading up to France’s last legal sanctioned duel through three different viewpoints that interpreted the details in vastly dissimilar ways. I did not care for it very much but I am happy that he was able to get something that goes so far against the current grain produced and it received enough raves from other people to make me think that perhaps I should give it another chance and see if it improves on a second viewing." (more)
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| ETERNALS |
"Adventure almost as big as its ideas."
Jay Seaver says... "Jack Kirby's comic book series "The Eternals" was published by Marvel Comics but only retrofitted into the shared universe later, and not always well (one gets the idea later writers would have more use for the grand mythology than the individual characters), and one often gets the sense that the movie adaptation would be better off outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well. Though not perfect, Chloe Zhao's film is grand fantasy with its own big ideas, and is at its best when one doesn't have to worry about it fitting into another framework as this month's apocalypse." (more)
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| KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME |
"So it goes."
Rob Gonsalves says... "In 1941, an 18-year-old Kurt Vonnegut Jr. inscribed a book to his high-school girlfriend, who would later become his wife. He wrote, “To be shown to our children when they begin to wonder what things are most important in this world that some fools call hell.”" (more)
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| ANITA |
"A capable tribute to a Hong Kong superstar."
Jay Seaver says... ""Anita" is a perfectly fine musician biography for someone who seemingly should have something a lot grander. Anita Mui was a huge star in Hong Kong - commercially successful at a level few if any have been since and envelope-pushing on top of that - and this movie could almost be about any pop star who died young. It's a glossy, enjoyable movie of that type, and seems to be going over well in its native territory, but outsiders won't necessarily get a sense of what a big deal she was." (more)
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| SPINE OF NIGHT, THE |
"Pure pulp."
Jay Seaver says... ""The Spine of Night" wears its influences proudly, to the extent that one may wonder what it is besides those influences, particularly if bloody fantasy is not particularly one's cup of tea. It's an impressively-mounted example of that particular genre, especially considering how far back its inspirations are, but not for everyone. If one isn't into nudity, bloody violence, and power fantasies for their own sake, they probably won't get a whole lot else out of the movie." (more)
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| VIOLET (2021) |
"Time to give Olivia Munn some respect."
Rob Gonsalves says... "Olivia Munn has been on my radar since 2006, when she started as one of the hosts of G4’s goofball gamers-and-geeks program 'Attack of the Show.'" (more)
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FILMS I NEGLECTED TO REVIEW: "EVERYBODY CAN CHANGE!"
by Peter Sobczynski |
| "Please enjoy short reviews of "Boiling Point," "India Sweets and Spices," "Out of the Blue," "The Power of the Dog," "The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star" and "Rocky IV: Rocky Vs. Drago--The Ultimate Director's Cut."" (more) |
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'CHICKS CANNOT HOLD THEIR SMOKE, THAT'S WHAT IT IS.'
- Brian, The Breakfast Club
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