 | A Strange Loop07 Sep, 2023 Wow! Wow! Wow! Get ready for some intersectional trauma in the best way possible. I walked in with no idea what I was about to see and I left stunned and babbling. It was a powerful play about a specific human being and their experience with is so different and alien to my own – but so universal and honest that it connects to everyone on a very personal level. It was an experience to be in a room with a couple hundred unique humans and each of us being activated and reflected in some specific facet of the story that connected to us individually and bound us all collectively. |
 | Barbie02 Sep, 2023 The fact that this fun and goofy movie has become a lightening rod for the so called culture wars is just a glaring example of how bankrupt the conversation is. This movie is about as edgy or challenging as House Bunny or Easy A. It stuck to "feminist" theory that went mainstream 25 years ago with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Anyone claiming to be shocked or offended by this is as honest as people claiming to be shocked by the revelations around the Catholic church. The movie itself was stylish and silly. It was an immersive fantasy. Like The Nightmare Before Christmas, this is basically a "when two worlds collide" premise. What happens when the plastic feminism of Barbie collides with the real world? The faults and joys of both are lovingly lampooned. |
 | Oppenheimer03 Aug, 2023 If you have a cool report on Oppenheimer, and hope to watch a movie instead of reading a biography, then this is NOT the movie for you. The movie doesn't explain anything or give a clear narrative in a clear, historical flow. It doesn't set the scene, explain the historical context, or even give you much idea about the main players. Instead of focusing on a factual narrative, it puts you into the mind an emotions of Oppenheimer. It tries to connect you to the truth of the experience more than the truth of the events. There is a scene where Oppenheimer sees cubist Picasso portrait of a woman. The painting is a metaphor for the whole film. You could never tell what the woman really looked like from the portrait. but it did explore a more esthetic level of truth about the subject. This film is a cubist biography. You will not learn about the facts, but you will connect to the esthetics. |
 | Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves01 Jul, 2023 This movie deserves a lot more love that it gets. This is not Shakespeare or highbrow art, but it is a solid heist movie set in an enduring realm with enjoyable characters. The chemistry between players is fun and enjoyable. Hugh Grant shows he can chew scenery with the best of them. The special effects and visualization is solid. And there are a few gems thrown in for fans of D&D |
 | Moulin Rouge13 Jun, 2023 It was a glorious assault on the senses. This jukebox music whiplashes you through hits and quick cuts that leave you spinning and doing your best not to sing along. The script and characters are familiar, so you don't have to focus on the plot and just move from one bedazzlement to the next. The hard truths of the movie were softened to make things a hazy, joyful romp. |
 | Everything Everywhere All At Once20 May, 2023 Yes! Yes! Where Marvel completely failed, this movie triumphed. It is wrapped in ridiculous sci-fi, Doctor Who-esque special effects. But the story is a gem. It is about a woman and all the family she loves. It is about all the roles she has to play. It is about the trauma of family, of trying to be everyone to everyone. It is about learning who you are, all of who you are, and healing and acceptance. Oh, and also about a giant space bagel that will end the multiverse. |
 | The Mirror Crackd30 Apr, 2023 Don't. Just don't! After a series of successful Agatha Christies, the studio tried for another. Each film declined from the initial Murder on the Orient Express, but this one was the final installment of this particular batch. While the previous films all offered exotic locals and had the escapism of a travelogue; this gets stuck a cheerful but very bland English village. You get a few moments of poisonous dialogue, but it never reaches the peaks that Dynasty could give in a 2min Alexa fight. |
 | Quantumania16 Apr, 2023 Paul Rudd's great gift was to take a character that no one cared about and make you love him. But in this movie, I didn't care. It was like Star Wars and the Carebear movie has an ill conceived child. Fight scenes and major moments all based on dumb behavior and poor timing. Bill Murray makes a delightful cameo; but that was the best thing going for it. |
 | Wakanda Forever08 Apr, 2023 This is one of those franchises that is better than the source material has any right for. Solid acting, sympathetic characters, moral grey areas, and tails of the outsider all combine to do what Marvel does best. This story is solidly in the wheel house of franchises like The X-Men and Spider-Man. It is a little bit sad that best representation of people of color in the Marvel Universe are not from a real place, as if we had to make up a nation for black excellence. Maybe that is the harshest statement about racism, that there are so few real places for black excellence to flourish in the real world of America's Hollywood. Angela Besset is a queen in every sense of the word! |
 | Notorious15 Mar, 2023 Spoiled brat? Nazi sympathizer? Spy? Harlot? Good time girl? Patriot? Ingrid Bergman keeps you guessing as she navigates this Hitchcock triller with a charming and vile Cary Grant as her foil and Claude Rains as her ... |
 | Strange World27 Jan, 2023 You cannot watch this movie without thinking back to Indiana Jones, Disney's Atlantis, and Avatar the Last Airbender; but the movie is a direct homage to the exotic explorer genre. On another level, it is a reframing of Disney's Brave, a less than successful story about the intergenerational trauma of a child living up to and/or rejecting a parent's expectations and repairing the damage to their relationship. Strange World fails to deliver on the human story. The characters conversations and behaviors are too abrupt, like the Cliff Note version of human interaction:
The visuals reference Avatar: Legend of Kora for city and character design; and the blue space Smurf version for the fantastic visuals of the wilderness. Imagination runs wild in the visual design, which annoying sounds like R2D2 knock offs. The plot hits you over the head like an anvil, which like the blue space Smurf movie, ruins so much of the magic. |
 | Shanghai Express07 Jan, 2023 Watch! The! Classics! I was blown away. 90 years after it's making, this film still delivers a spectacle. In 1932, people must have lost their minds. Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich deliver full characters with costumes, glances, and sparse lines. From the moment the train leaves the station, you are on a ride through someplace completely different. |
 | The Man Who Never Was02 Jan, 2023 Mildly interesting, at best. This slow paced movie is interesting not because of anything on screen, but because of the real story behind it. Apparently the silly plot was the real life idea of the real life Ian Flemming, the man behind James Bond. |
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