That’s right. I enjoyed The Rise of Skywalker to a reasonable extent because I had bailed on the “saga” decades ago and never bothered to catch up. I didn’t know or care about any of the characters, so I wasn’t disappointed that it didn’t make sense. Sure, I had a lot of questions, but I…
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I predicted this!
Well, I did, pretty much. I make lots of predictions, often without intending to, and sometimes some of them come true, and this is one of those times. In my exceedingly—though not excessively—long-winded review of Quentin Tarantino’s fitfully entertaining Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, I remarked the following: Much of the violence in Once…
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: not entirely the all-out misogynistic gore-fest I had been expecting!
When Quentin Tarantino was a young man, he had dreams, as young men do. These are among the things that Quentin Tarantino dreamed: That he would kick Bruce Lee’s ass; That he would save Sharon Tate’s ass; That he would have a pitbull that would bite people on the ass (also the nuts); That he…
Why go to the movies when you can laugh at them?
It’s a damn fact: movies are made either for 13-year-olds or bicoastal glitterati/literati pc pundits. So if you want to watch the Avengers avenge something, or see a woman make love to a fish—because all men are you should excuse the expression pigs—be my guest. I prefer to stay home and laugh. My resources o’…
No Life? No Problem! Slate explains why you have to see the 12 precious additional minutes to “A Star Is Born” in the “A Star Is Born Encore” edition now playing in movie theaters across the country
Yes, you can fill up a good three hours of that empty void you call you by going to see A Star Is Born Encore, but you can also kill a good 20 minutes more just by reading “The Best and Worst New Scenes in A Star Is Born EncoreI” in Slate. Heather Schwedel ably,…
Clint Eastwood’s “Mule”: Very Largely (Yet Not Entirely) Disappointing
When I saw the ads for Clint Eastwood’s possibly final film, The Mule, I was—rather shockingly, since I haven’t seen one of his films since In the Line of Fire (1993, and excellent)—intrigued. A gritty tale of shady, sleazy drug deals gone wrong, with the twist that the hapless protagonist caught in the middle is…
A Star Is Born: You know who I feel sorry for? I feel sorry for the guy who had to pretend he could be punched out by Lady Gaga
Yeah, at 5’1” and (apparently) 108 pounds, I doubt if the Gaga Girl packs much of a punch, but if you believe the latest reiteration of A Star Is Born, she can send a normal size guy reeling with just one blow.1 This is just one of the many questions raised by ASIB, including “Who…
Jurassic Park V—Not Bad!
I’ve already lurched and lumbered my way through the first four Jurassic Parks, so there’s no reason to keep quiet about No. 5, aka Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—which I would rate as actually the third best in the franchise. My rankings are quite idiosyncratic, because I give first place to the generally unloved Jurassic Park…
It was twenty years ago today, more or less
In May 1998, actually, my first post appeared in Gary Morris’ now legendary site, the Bright Lights Film Journal, to wit: “What Kind of a Cowboy Are You? Eddie Cantor Goes West in Whoopee”, a film significantly more politically incorrect than the poster shown above. True, this poster could easily be considered sexist by the…
The Post? What about The Times? What about The Truth?
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks seem to be involved in a conspiracy to bore us to death with virtuous films, first with Bridge of Spies and now with The Post, films that consist almost entirely of old white people standing around and talking, a lot. Bridge of Spies is about one honest man who makes…