Yes, that's the rarely used F up there. This movie is a turd. I loved the Luther TV series and Idris Alba in it. Why the fuck would he agree to this piece of crap? Was he threatened or something? Did he momentarily lose his mind? Same goes for Andy Serkis and whatever bullshit he …
Continue reading Luther: The Fallen Sun (Jamie Payne – 2023) F
The story of how Nike won the Michael Jordan endorsement and the birth of the Air Jordan changing the landscape of athletes' relationship to corporations and making Nike (considered only a running shoe company at the time and a third behind Adidas and Converse) a crap ton of money. It's also the story about how …
Who knew Tetris was so difficult to bring to the world. That it was invented by a Russian computer scientist and there was a whole lot of political drama to get he rights from the Soviets involving British media moguls and corrupt KGB agents. Well, maybe a lot of people knew that from the Wikipedia …
It's a good one. It's very nice to have a good Marvel movie, one that I do not mind seeing again at some point with characters that make sense even though they are beyond insane. Gunn's sense of how to strike the balance between tugging on your heartstrings and not taking the whole thing to …
Continue reading Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn – 2023) B+
A pretty funny and light exploration of modern love and the blending of two very different families. Ezra (Jonah Hill) is Jewish and Amira (Lauren London) is Black and Muslim. It's not an easy combo on either of their families. This is not a deep or serious film but it manages to get some good …
It's not bad, even though it does not really hang together, does not make much sense and is so damn long. I know what I'm typing makes no sense but I kind of liked this mess of a film.
The first of Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons is about Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre) and Natacha (Florence Darel). Jeanne is a philosophy professor in Paris whose apartment is occupied by her cousin for the week. She -for some reason- does not want to stay at her boyfriend's place and by chance runs into Natacha at …
Continue reading A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer – 1990) B+
No one will ever know if you actually prevented the end of the world. I had a good time with this one for most of it. The premise is fascinating and it could've been far more interesting if it kept going down the philosophical and theological rabbit hole. It does not and the ending felt …
Continue reading Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan – 2022) B-
It's a tough thing to follow-up on and deal with Chadwick Boseman's death. I recognize that. Still, I do not think this was a very good movie. It has it's moments, Angela Bassett does a great job, I like the villain. On the other hand I was not crazy about most of the plot points, …
Continue reading Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler – 2022) C+
Maybe it's a cult classic and has that unique De Palma style but unlike others in the same era like Body Double this has the disadvantage of sucking. It's shlocky, with nothing behind the shlock. It's plot is paper thin, the bad guy is immediately obvious and the whole thing ages very very badly.
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