Ten Sentence Movie Reviews and Other Mussings
The Hummingbird Project is about the impossibility of stealing time, one millisecond to be exact. That’s how much faster their fiber optic cable spanning from Kansas City to the New York Stock Exchange will be than the competition. Pennies in commission times thousands of transactions equals hundred of millions in a slow year. So you…
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The best time and light for film biographies is twilight. Everything old looks grand in the dying light and creeping shadows, and it hardly matters that the actorly imitation is a step or two behind the genuine article. At that age everything is reflection, memory, regret and sadness, hopes of resurrecting those youthful steps and…
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There is a sadness to all the disco bumping and grinding in Gloria Bell, a remake of the director’s Sebastian Lelio’s 2013 Spanish original Gloria. These are middle age divorced quasi boomers looking for love, but unsure how to negotiate the first awkward steps that lead to the bedroom. There life is a series of…
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Fans have been waiting for the DC Cinematic Universe to lighten up and are applauding Shazam as a step in the right direction. Shazam is just Big in superhero tights. Only in the dour DC Universe does Shazam seem a joyful cry. Shazam isn’t a revolution just a smart marketing ploy designed to appease those…
The western at its heart has always been a love story between a man and his horse. The new modern western focus on the rehabilitation of the soul between both man and beast. The Mustang hones in on the very essence of that plot fact, concentrating on those most in need of rehabilitation, prisoner and…
In Tim Burton’s version of Dumbo, the only thing that keeps the whole thing from really soaring is the gravity of the plot. Sure, Dumbo the baby elephant needs to overcome earthly woes in order to reach heavenly heights, but it doesn’t need to be so plainly pedestrian in order to get there. Dumbo revolves…
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The new historical WWII romance The Aftermath seems to be factoring the losing German side feeling into the equation. Kiera Knightley falls in love with Alexander Skarsgard the aristocratic German capitalist whose family mansion has been seized for the personal use of a British commander (Jason Clarke) sent in to rebuild the British sector of…
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Us is them, you, me, U.S., United States and all the good black and white and in between moments. It being horror, Us. is also Halloween, The Birds, The Shining, Jaws, eventually Night of the Living Dead, Friday the 13th, Black Swan. You get the point- the references, the pastiche, the absurd visual metaphors involving…
There is something majestic about great moments in history caught gloriously in action. The Apollo 11 moon landing was one of those caught moments in time. Appropriately, a documentary about Apollo 11 wouldn’t need sonorous commentary or analysis, just the somber prosody of Walter Cronkite, the voices of Mission Control, and the astronauts themselves. The…
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