Dec
30
White Noise
White Noise is a head scratch of a movie. Something that will make you wonder if any of the actors had any idea what was going on during filming. Not that the plot is confusing, more the why of the … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Drama
Dec
27
Whale, The
Darren Aronofsky is a writer/director I admire. I like his instinct to go big, transcendental, and weird with movies like The Fountain and even Noah (which I didn’t particularly like but found fascinating). But he also give us more down-to-earth … Continue reading
Dec
26
Babylon
Babylon might not be a movie where all of its disparate themes, ideas, and plots come together, but I had a hell of a time just going along for the ride. Such a manic, thoughtful blunderbuss of a film about … Continue reading
Dec
24
Nanny
Nanny is a tale of two movies… one a pretty good film about a Senegalese immigrant trying to make her way in the United States, the other a vague hand-waving supernatural film with unsatisfying and random frights. It needed to … Continue reading
Dec
19
Spoiler Alert
The spoiler alert of Spoiler Alert is that the hero dies… which is the full title of the memoir this movie is based on. Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by journalist Michael Ausiello. I haven’t read this book and I’m … Continue reading
Dec
18
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Bardo is a head-scratcher of an annoyance of a personal film that I didn’t get for long swaths and resented having to sit through that somehow, some way, comes together in the final thirty minutes of understanding so that I … Continue reading
Dec
17
Empire of Light
Empire of Light is a beautiful, well-acted film that can’t figure out what it’s about. I think it’s too personal or regional or temporal a film for anyone who wasn’t working in a movie theater in 1980 England. The film … Continue reading
Dec
10
Emancipation
Good intentions and handsome filmmaking are the hallmarks of this grim slavery/civil war epic. Lincoln has issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves of the the rebelling South. Will Smith plays real-life escaped slave Peter who must survive first his … Continue reading
Dec
06
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
I propose we resurrect Charlies Dickens and give him back his copyright so Hollywood can be stopped from retreading this material. At least lets get a gatekeeper up in this IP. Jeesh. Yeah, it’s another Christmas Carol. I’d say this … Continue reading
Dec
04
Devotion
I had no idea, going in, that Devotion was a film based on the Korean war… looking at the poster, I figured WWII so that was a nice surprise for a fairly nice movie. And if I spent a few … Continue reading