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Presented by James M. Tate / 7/21/2017 / No comments / action , christopher nolan , war , world war II

WEEKEND REVIEW OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S DUNKIRK

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Main/First Viewpoint of Three YEAR RELEASED: 2017</u></td></tr>
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Will hope to keep this short, and to the point. Not to avoid spoilers since DUNKIRK is part of history. But for all the immensity, it's still a tight character-driven film, from beginning... as a young soldier dodges German bullets on the edge of the invaded French town... to the middle... as the same kid winds up on several aerial-bombarded boats... to the end when...<br>
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So, alright, it <i>is</i> possible to spoil. What's important to note is exactly what kind of World World II movie it is. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, for instance, narrowed down, was a Body Count adventure: a handful of soldiers that we get to know from the start, on their way to a particular destination, being picked off, one by one, with very few survivors. DUNKIRK, on the other hand, is a bareknuckle Disaster Epic but with a relatively short runtime, and surprisingly enough, coming from Christopher Nolan, there isn't much dialogue at all...<br>

action, christopher nolan, war, world war II

WEEKEND REVIEW OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S DUNKIRK

The Main/First Viewpoint of Three YEAR RELEASED: 2017 Will hope to keep this short, and to the point. Not to avoid spoilers since DUNKIR...

BELATED REVIEW OF WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Have These Apes Reached Their Long Goodbye? YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The good old days of the original PLANET OF THE APES, as that franchise ended with a BATTLE instead of WAR at the head of its title, things weren't so good <span style="font-family: "times";">—</span> the budget got lower with each installment so the climax was... well... very anticlimactic... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And now, as far as money goes, skies the limit, and WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, while looking terrific with tons of special effects, has hardly anything to do with the title wherein BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES simply lacked the necessary ingredients for it to matter...</span><br>

2017, action, franchise, planet of the apes, sequel, woody harrelson

BELATED REVIEW OF WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

Have These Apes Reached Their Long Goodbye? YEAR: 2017 The good old days of the original PLANET OF THE APES, as that franchise ended wit...

MICHAEL KEATON DEVELOPS MCDONALD'S AS THE FOUNDER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>What 1970's Movie Is This From? Hint, a Boston tune plays YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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The problem with Hollywood-moralizing is it makes a theme or agenda override the characters, especially when based on real folks like, for instance, young Facebook phenom Mark Zuckerberg,  torn apart in THE SOCIAL NETWORK and now it's McDonald's mogul Ray Croc's turn under the hatchet — so this review will have to fight preachy with preachy....<br>
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Michael Keaton, an actor who can make anyone if not likable then completely realistic, is a blank slate here as THE FOUNDER, with its title bathed in irony (although Croc <i>did </i>find the restaurant, and its potential, as opposed to creating it). Keaton sleepwalks through the role, in slow motion... despite displaying a ghost of his usual wired b.s. artist, starting out as a lowly milkshake salesman traveling a nowhere road from greasy spoon to spoon — rejection after rejection. This is where his persona should have been grounded — when he had nothing and was hungry, anything would be possible... Instead it's just a flash of benign conversations and doors closing, which leads to the inevitable partnership with the McDonald brothers, whose small town burger joint invented the word Fast-Food as the movie drags from one scene to the next. Ray Croc is mostly shown from other people's reaction: Dumbfounded stares from his so-called business partners and wife (a witchy Laura Dern) <i>lets us know </i>how to feel about the guy who's climbing to the top...<br>

2017, bio, drama, michael keaton

MICHAEL KEATON DEVELOPS MCDONALD'S AS THE FOUNDER

What 1970's Movie Is This From? Hint, a Boston tune plays YEAR: 2017 The problem with Hollywood-moralizing is it makes a theme or ag...

BELATED REVIEW OF EDGAR WRIGHT'S BABY DRIVER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Retro Sparse poster for Baby Driver sans the title YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BABY DRIVER is part RESERVOIR DOGS in storyline and characters, and nearly <i>all</i> Quentin Tarantino in style, substance and the super-hip hybrid of classic rock R&B, fast-paced humor and tons of bloodshed...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course Edgar Wright isn't without his own zingy style seen in cult favorites SHAWN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, THE WORLD'S END: And here he's one-upped Tarantino's recent string of dull historical revenge sagas with an edgy urban precision combining music with the tribal beat of frantic self defense: with either pool sticks or in this case, gunfire. Making BABY DRIVER a metronomic, multi-heist action flick that also borrows from Walter Hill's THE DRIVER since the main character is quiet, brooding and much different than the brash thugs he provides an apt getaway for; each heist viewed by only his perspective...</span><br>

2017, action, jon hamm

BELATED REVIEW OF EDGAR WRIGHT'S BABY DRIVER

Retro Sparse poster for Baby Driver sans the title YEAR: 2017 BABY DRIVER is part RESERVOIR DOGS in storyline and characters, and nearly...

SUNDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Spider-Man back for a third time but a first for Marvel YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a scene when Peter Parker uses one of his main gadgets as a voice box. Although it's intended to be funny through satire, SPIDER-MAN having a deep, formidable, robotic tone actually fits the costume, which is arguably the coolest, meanest and leanest superhero get-up of all time...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not that Tom Holland is a weak SPIDER-MAN. He's a good one. And a good actor. Sympathetic. Energetic. And while it's difficult if impossible making any high school student seem like a geek nowadays when everyone carries a personal computer/phone in their pocket, he fits the mold of an underdog who's hiding a secret while getting no credit for his accomplishments...</span><br>

2017, marvel, superhero

SUNDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

Spider-Man back for a third time but a first for Marvel YEAR: 2017 There's a scene when Peter Parker uses one of his main gadgets as...

OLD WITH NEW: DOUBLE BEGUILED & THE HOUSE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Clint Eastwood BEGUILED has an archive review below</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Covering two new theatrical releases, quickly, as there really isn't much out there, yet. Then again, one of them is surprisingly decent while the other is neither good, bad, or... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well Sofia Coppola's THE BEGUILED definitely isn't ugly. Although, unlike the original </span><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2011/02/beguiled.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Don Siegel Civil War-Era Thriller</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, starring Clint Eastwood as a wounded Yankee soldier holed-up in a spooky manor run by beautiful vixens (think Castle Anthrax from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, without the singing), the two starlets aren't mischievous and daring enough to turn the darkly-lit Gothic location into a hybrid of male fantasy and claustrophobic nightmare...</span><br>

2017, comedy, mob, remake

OLD WITH NEW: DOUBLE BEGUILED & THE HOUSE

The Clint Eastwood BEGUILED has an archive review below Covering two new theatrical releases, quickly, as there really isn't much ou...

NEO-NOIR GANGSTER HYBRID OF THE DON IS DEAD

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How could a movie starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Frederic Forrest, Al Lettieri, directed by Richard Fleischer and centering on cutthroat mobsters slightly miss the mark, or, not be an incredible masterpiece? </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Probably because there's not much of a target to begin with, and yet, that's not such a bad thing since the breezy undertone provides a cushion of what feels like actor improvisation under the edgy, multi-plotted schemes going on... And on and on...</span><br>

anthony quinn, fredric forrest, gangster, neo noir, robert forster

NEO-NOIR GANGSTER HYBRID OF THE DON IS DEAD

The Don is Dead pink poster YEAR: 1973 How could a movie starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Frederic Forrest, Al Lettieri, directed...

EDGE OF GREATNESS ABOUT JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT REVIEWED

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From VIGILANTE FORCE, one of many so-called forgotten films</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"This is not a life," David Grove writes in the final page of his book, EDGE OF GREATNESS, about the eclectic acting career of Jan-Michael Vincent. "It's obvious now that he was not born; he was invented. I thought there would be more, but this is it. He got what he deserved."</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ouch! Especially coming from a talented author and film historian, bringing the reader back in time, through an endless ringer. It's lovely writing, but where's the love? There was obviously a lot "more" that Jan-Michael Vincent felt, and lived, and discovered, than could be conjured up "in your philosophy," as Shakespeare wrote of his narrow-minded Horatio. </span><br>

book review, jan-michael vincent

EDGE OF GREATNESS ABOUT JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT REVIEWED

From VIGILANTE FORCE, one of many so-called forgotten films "This is not a life," David Grove writes in the final page of his ...

CHARLIE CHAPLIN ENDS WITH A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sophia Loren & Marlon Brando runing in circles YEAR: 1966</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Polar opposites Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando have something in common other than being legendary performers known for their topnotch skills: The first is a physical comic and the other can be extremely dramatic... </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So when Brando tries for comedy in Chaplin's final directorial film, A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG, it's one of the most awkward performances ever... by anyone. But it's mostly Chaplin's fault. Once having told director Orson Welles that he didn't need to move the camera using creative angles because his antics made up for it, he should have realized that's not the case with Brando and Sophia Loren; the latter as the title character, a stowaway on a boat holding the multi-millionaire oilman "captive" in his room while he's on the verge of gaining an important position in Washington DC...</span><br>

charlie chaplin, marlon brando, romantic comedy, sixties, sophia loren

CHARLIE CHAPLIN ENDS WITH <span style="color: #783f04;">A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG </span>

CHARLIE CHAPLIN ENDS WITH A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG

Sophia Loren & Marlon Brando runing in circles YEAR: 1966 Polar opposites Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando have something in common...

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

2016, action, based on TV, bryan cranston, kids, science-fiction

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF <span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">POWER RANGERS</span></b> </span>

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

The Rangers hanging at David Letterman's old Late Nite set YEAR: 2017 Not long ago, once-successful director John Landis's curre...

TOM CRUISE ONCE AGAIN AS JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>It's a family affair this time for JACK REACHER Year: 2016</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a sequel titled SON OF KONG so why not DAUGHTER OF REACHER? Well for the most part, it's not a foregone conclusion he's really the father. Either way, a tagalong kid (or teen) doesn't usually belong in an espionage/action flick...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although in the original there was a troubled girl but this time it's closer, and personal. The first thing the icy asskicker has <i>really</i> cared about. He's the kind of (ex-Army) rogue hero bordering on anti-hero who knows the score before each maneuver. So there was a touch of slowburn Neo-Noir in the first picture, and now, one of that genre's major plot-lines is the core: Jack's a "Wrong Man," accused of, as the story goes on, several deaths along the path where he's already been...</span><br>

2016, action, cobie smulders, espionage, military, sequel, suspense, tom cruise, wrong man

TOM CRUISE ONCE AGAIN AS JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

It's a family affair this time for JACK REACHER Year: 2016 There's a sequel titled SON OF KONG so why not DAUGHTER OF REACHER? W...

KEANU REEVES BACK BLASTING IN JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Keanu finds himself in a brand new franchise YEAR: 2016</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm not that guy anymore...</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A line uttered by JOHN WICK, again played by Keanu Reeves, in the new venture: Yet you'd think this kind of morose surrender would come after three or four movies, having gotten to know "that guy" a lot better. And this sequel is referred to as CHAPTER 2, which makes sense since the original action-packed sleeper was very basic and satisfying i.e. more like a chapter than a book...</span><br>

2016, keanu reeves

KEANU REEVES BACK BLASTING IN JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2

Keanu finds himself in a brand new franchise YEAR: 2016 I'm not that guy anymore... A line uttered by JOHN WICK, again played by K...

ROB ZOMBIE WRITES & DIRECTS THE BLOODFEST OF 31

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>1970's Homage Style Poster Art for 31 Year: 2016</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rob Zombie's "31" is one of those horror movies that's terrifying for the fictional characters and not one bit scary to the audience... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seeming like a twisted version of THE RUNNING MAN (originally derived from THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME), five people have to survive a tortuous hunting underground hosted by Malcolm McDowell and two old ladies, dressed in wigged European aristocrat costumes, letting the would-be victims know how much time is left, and which antagonist is next up to bat: All bearing names with Head at the end, such as Sick-Head and Doom-Head, they resemble Heath Ledger's Joker combined with Rob's usual Killer Clown motif with a dash of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE demented redneck.</span><br>

2016, body count, horror, lawrence hilton-jacobs, malcolm mcdowell, rob zombie

ROB ZOMBIE WRITES & DIRECTS THE BLOODFEST OF 31

1970's Homage Style Poster Art for 31 Year: 2016 Rob Zombie's "31" is one of those horror movies that's terrifying...

PRODIGAL WARREN BEATTY RETURNS IN RULES DON'T APPLY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Belated Review of 2016's Rules Don't Apply</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">RULES DON'T APPLY stars and is directed by Warren Beatty, who left Hollywood over ten years ago after his comedy disaster TOWN & COUNTRY was chopped on the editing block, not by the studio but the man himself: guilty for his own massive failure... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So this is a return for not only Beatty the filmmaker but the actor, whose subtle touch is usually effective yet rarely extraordinary, although he doesn't sell himself as the lead herein: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Upon first glance, it seems like the film's starlet, Lily Collins as Maria, is a very, very young small town girl up for a part in a Howard Hughes picture... Beatty's Hughes speaks in a purposeful monotone since the real life billionaire's well-known insanity gives any actor a sky's-the-limit opportunity to chew the scenery. In that, he plays it strange yet extremely grounded, and by the time it's realized that Collins is slightly older than she initially appeared, a creepy scene occurs, ruining what had been building up in an effectively mysterious fashion: simply put, it seems that Warren, the famous womanizer, now married and old, gave himself a chance for a love scene with a schoolgirl that a dirty old man could conjure up in his fantasies: liken to an aging action star who'd cast a younger badass to fight, and defeat, so goes the short-lived March/December romance for the aging, mummified Playboy...</span><br>

2016, alden ehrenreich, bio, lily collins, warren beatty

PRODIGAL WARREN BEATTY RETURNS IN RULES DON'T APPLY

Belated Review of 2016's Rules Don't Apply RULES DON'T APPLY stars and is directed by Warren Beatty, who left Hollywood over...

CAGNEY WINDS DOWN WITH NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Cagney behind blinds in a semi Musical from 1959</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During his last decade of acting before what was really his retirement from show business (despite popping his head out twenty years later), James Cagney never did have that necessary pinnacle or comeback like, say, a fledgling Marlon Brando when director Francis Ford Coppola insisted that he try out for... you know...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this case, Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick's favorite actor's filmography during the Fifties is eclectic and, for the most part, at times, pretty mediocre... That's compared to the likes of PUBLIC ENEMY, THE ROARING TWENTIES or WHITE HEAT: And here's one of several breezy breaks for the man who once reigned with vengeance: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL is a semi-musical about Union corruption, and if that sounds strange, only the little man could pull it off with an edgy vibe, somewhat: Like in one of his other (and far superior) 1950's vehicles, LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, he's in love with a young blonde girl who loves someone else </span>—<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> all while trying to steal an election...</span><br>

comedy, fifties, james cagney, mob, musical, shirley jones

CAGNEY WINDS DOWN WITH NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL

James Cagney behind blinds in a semi Musical from 1959 During his last decade of acting before what was really his retirement from show ...

JOHN HURT & RICHARD BURTON IN GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Hurt very belated Memorial from 1984 YEAR: 1984</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having grown up part of the original STAR WARS generation, it's impossible to <i>not</i> connect that story with even the most popular of classic futuristic novels that, in this case, proceeded the science-fiction phenom by decades. The question is: Would The Dark Side consider themselves The Dark Side? In their minds, they're right, not wrong... Right? Pure Light, not the absence of light...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the 1984 version of the George Orwell adaptation of 1984, despite being purposefully overboard to capture the essence of symbolism, it's difficult to find anything lucrative about this particular totalitarian government in which most of the people are forcefully, methodically content: The dilapidated streets resemble bombarded post-War Germany, and on giant movie screens is the image of a man that looks like Adolf Hitler, somewhat, and there's no turning off the repetitious propaganda ranging from battle front updates to how much chocolate will cost "next week." Meanwhile, the people confess their "sins" to the leader and to "Big Brother," especially those who have read a book by a man named Goldstein (no, he doesn't play basketball at Carver High): his philosophy attempts to delete this horrendous future with no value whatsoever. Hell, there's not even a cool red lightsaber.</span><br>

adaptation, eighties, john hurt, richard burton, science-fiction

JOHN HURT & RICHARD BURTON IN GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984

John Hurt very belated Memorial from 1984 YEAR: 1984 Having grown up part of the original STAR WARS generation, it's impossible to n...

UNWRAPPING THE TOM CRUISE MUMMY REBOOT REMAKE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Tom Cruise Mummy has hardly a bandage at all YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Failing to point out similarities that new movies share with old ones is like ignoring a familiar face who says hello... After bumping right into you...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So it's important to mention that <i>The Tom Cruise MUMMY</i> is, in its core, almost exactly like AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, arguably the greatest werewolf picture ever and, directed by John Landis, centers on two doomed vacationing hikers: one gets killed by an initial attack, the other injured: The latter has ominous, foreboding dreams while his not-very-pleasant-looking dead friend appears randomly, offering </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">spooky yet cordial reminders that he, the living, must <i>also</i> die to lift The Curse... </span><br>

2017, action, fantasy, reboot, science-fiction, tom cruise

UNWRAPPING THE TOM CRUISE MUMMY REBOOT REMAKE

The Tom Cruise Mummy has hardly a bandage at all YEAR: 2017 Failing to point out similarities that new movies share with old ones is lik...

MARVEL GROUNDS THE TRULY BIZARRE OF DOCTOR STRANGE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dragon image in one of many Strange posters YEAR: 2016</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How a comic book adaption like this could be so... well... <i>strange</i> and still make enough sense... at least while you're watching.... is nothing short of miraculous. Or maybe we want it to be clear enough to remain on track this multi-level, cerebral rollercoaster...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title character with a dash of Robert Downey Jr. style sarcasm. Perhaps any superhero, before taking on a Marvel lead, crams for the <i>Tony Stark 101</i> test since wry, glib humor helps ground a bizarre, otherworldly situation...</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before Downey, Bill Murray did it in GHOSTBUSTERS. Jeff Goldblum in JURASSIC PARK. And many films beforehand allowing the audience to not only laugh during intense moments, but to take random breaks from the pandemonium (basically, the main star becomes his own sidekick). </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And in the case of DOCTOR STRANGE, Cumberbatch <i>does</i> have a style all his own. An intellectual countenance makes for a realistically brilliant surgeon who thinks too highly of himself </span>—<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> with a reason, sort of. The only doctor who can pull off nearly inconceivable  operations, his life is as perfect as his sleek, expensive car. That's until listening Pink Floyd's INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE (early Syd Barrett era instrumental) and crashing down a mountainside, which is too quick and seems forced to get our man to the point where the origin story needs boundless desperation to ignite...</span></span><br>

2016, action, benedict cumberbatch, comic book, fantasy, marvel, science-fiction

MARVEL GROUNDS THE TRULY BIZARRE OF DOCTOR STRANGE

Dragon image in one of many Strange posters YEAR: 2016 How a comic book adaption like this could be so... well... strange and still mak...

FINAL HUGH JACKMAN WOLVERINE GOES BY JUST PLAIN LOGAN

2017, action, comic, franchise, hugh jackman, marvel, patrick stewart, road movie

FINAL HUGH JACKMAN WOLVERINE GOES BY JUST PLAIN <i>LOGAN</i>

FINAL HUGH JACKMAN WOLVERINE GOES BY JUST PLAIN LOGAN

Neat Walking Dead Style LOGAN poster YEAR: 2017 Somewhere online, the third and final WOLVERINE is said to have been influenced by films...

END OF THE WEEKEND REVIEW OF WONDER WOMAN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wonder Woman Gal Gadot posing in front of a Weezer logo YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First things first, and not to be shallow... although both male and female will readily admit that Gal Gadot is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful women ever filmed... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which makes perfect sense in the WONDER WOMAN origin story because — she's no ordinary dame. Even living on an island with a race of Amazon beauties, who spend their long days practice-fighting in a slow-motion MATRIX style fashion, she stands out <i>and</i> alone — the only vixen with powers far beyond her kind. <i>Superpowers</i>, indeed...</span><br>

2017, chris pine, comic book, gal gadot

END OF THE WEEKEND REVIEW OF WONDER WOMAN

Wonder Woman Gal Gadot posing in front of a Weezer logo YEAR: 2017 First things first, and not to be shallow... although both male and f...

RIDLEY SCOTT SUSTAINS PROMETHEUS WITH ALIEN: COVENANT

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>More Spoilers Than Usual Since it's Been Out A While YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While Ash, the humanoid robot from the original ALIEN, was so obsessed with the "perfect" species, i.e. The Alien, he let it inside the ship, director Ridley Scott has the same adoration for Michael Fassbender, as the new Synthetic, that it's a wonder anyone else is even around...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We <i>do</i> learn in COVENANT that Fassbender's David had spent a decade on the planet he and the last sole surviving heroine blasted off to at the end of PROMETHEUS... And what began in 1979 as a body-count horror flick in outer space ("Where no one can hear you scream") has basically turned into a science-fiction version of Frankenstein — and boy, does he have a Monster: But first it takes a spaceship with a crew stupid enough to land there. Enter the new cast of human targets in this rushed sequel of an initially surreptitious prequel that makes the flawed PROMETHEUS seem like the original ALIEN (or James Cameron's action-packed sequel, ALIENS) by comparison.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Taking over the Sigourney Weaver "Ripley" mantle is a whiny, weepy Katherine Waterston as Daniels, who's more like Veronica Cartwright's frantic Lambert: the uptight lady who never stopped screeching... And how director Ridley Scott managed to make the otherwise beautiful Waterston look plain and homely is one of many problems here... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other than a cocky cowboy played by Danny McBride (the new Yaphet Kotto blue collar type), the entire crew is downright forgettable and, during sporadic, violent action scenes, aren't worthy enough to care about. While the original ALIEN chief in Tom Skerritt's Dallas provided the PSCYHO Janet Leigh role — seeming like the main character before his surprisingly quick death leaves the crew in an unplanned disarray — Billy Crudup's second-man turned captain, replacing an unlucky guy we never meet but through an archived video, is so inept, pathetic and cowardly he should have a lion suit on. Although, for the record, his banality <i>is </i>needed to explain why they'd wind up on that uncertain, unfamiliar planet in the first place.</span><br>

action, danny mcbride, horror, katherine waterston, michael fassbender, ridley scott, science-fiction, suspense

RIDLEY SCOTT SUSTAINS PROMETHEUS WITH ALIEN: COVENANT

More Spoilers Than Usual Since it's Been Out A While YEAR: 2017 While Ash, the humanoid robot from the original ALIEN, was so obsess...

MEMORIAL DAY REVIEW OF BREAKTHROUGH W/ JOHN AGAR

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An unplanned writeup for Memorial Day since, as a collector of the Warner Archive DVDs, it's refreshing to find an old B&W World War II flick that's more an intriguing, suspenseful journey than cliché melodrama... </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Despite the fact the nicest guy on board shows-off a picture of his wife and kids, and winds up predictably dead: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's also the token jester i.e. comic relief; a kindhearted simpleton; a muscle-bound dolt; a nervous, really young small town kid; a wise, head-strong Sergeant; an educated Lieutenant who lacks actual fighting experience; and his jaded, too-experienced Captain, trying to get him ready to, in this particular story, lead men onto the beaches of Normandy...</span><br>

action, dick wesson, fifties, frank lovejoy, john agar, war, warner archives

MEMORIAL DAY REVIEW OF BREAKTHROUGH W/ JOHN AGAR

Warner Archives front and back of DVD Year: 1950 An unplanned writeup for Memorial Day since, as a collector of the Warner Archive DVDs,...

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