With his new film, New Zealand’s darling director Taika Waititi (Thor Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople) definitively proves that comedy is a powerful tool that can elucidate and satirise a complex issue like intolerance. Based on Christine Leunens’ book Caging Skies, Jojo Rabbit…
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Does The Remake Remain Cursed By A Fatally Hokey Concept? “Grudge” Isn’t That Scary
The latest remake of The Grudge has received rave reviews from critics. 2002’s Ju-On: The Grudge is one of the undisputed classics of the new wave of Japanese horror. The film, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu, was the western introduction of a new genre of horror that defied the…
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Gentle Joke: Jumanji – The Next Level Feels Like A Body-Swapping Delight ???
It’s two weeks after Thanksgiving. A little early to fight a new over stuffed turkey. Still, here’s “Jumanji: The Next Level.” This is a sequel to the 2017 reboot (again directed by Jake Kasdan), which has a lot to do with the audience. In that movie, a quartet of teenagers…
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Pointless International Location Work, Unnecessary Lightness And The Solvent Of Fun : Does Fictional Character On-Screen, Shine???
In the interest of due diligence, I recently reread my review from 2000 of the first big-screen “Charlie’s Angels.” I opened that appraisal with a fast takedown and a sincerely posed question: “Of course, it’s terrible -but did it have to be this bad?”Two decades later, I hopefully watched the…
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Does Frozen 2 Give A Muddled Message ???
Frozen was the biggest movie that the animation division of Disney had seen in a very long time. Between the fact that the film put a major twist on the princess tropes that Disney themselves had helped to create, and the fact that the movie had that song you couldn’t…
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Certified Fresh, Ford V Ferrari With A Twist That Only Devoted Petrolheads Will Know Is Coming
Based on a true story, it is crammed with unearned emotional moments and factory-built male characters whose dedication to their sport we are expected to find adorable and heroic by turns. This is a standard-issue, middleweight biopic-type film, which comes complete with the now mandatory three factual sentences over the…
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Adams Family, From The Directors Of “Sausage Party” Is Pretty Much The Diversion You Would Expect
There are about half a dozen bright spots in the new animated feature “The Addams Family,” but in between them is the unbright and unoriginal storyline about how the real monsters are the ordinary people, not the weird people. Fans of ‘The Addams Family’ movies of the 90s (excluding the…
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Fastly and Furiously how Hobbs and Shaw make you say Wow, is what their New Movie is All About
When a deadly virus goes missing, Hobbs and Shaw are recruited by the CIA to track down the virus and save the world. Hobbs, the lawman from America, is forced to team up with Shaw, the former MI6 agent from the UK. The problem is they cannot abide each other….
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Star Trek Beyond
I just happened to see the Star Trek Beyond movie thanks to my Amazon Prime subscription… Star Trek beyond is the 13th movie from the Star Trek franchise and the 3rd one since the reboot in 2009… The film paid tribute to the actors Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin who…