by Alan Yudman 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! If you do not know what that means, well I weep for your misspent youth. Or maybe you are simply too young to know the joys of the 1960's adventure series THE THUNDERBIRDS. The original was produced for British TV by ITC and brought … Continue reading THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO
Month: April 2016
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME
by Alan Yudman Richard Linklater specializes in telling very real stories about very real people. From the SUNRISE/SUNSET trilogy to BOYHOOD to DAZED AND CONFUSED, Linklater's characters don't do outrageous things or exhibit outrageous behavior by Hollywood standards. His stories are about life. His latest, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME follows that same path. It is the … Continue reading EVERYBODY WANTS SOME
GREEN ROOM
— by Jeff Schultz A nasty piece of ugliness that has no juicy villains (not even Patrick Stewart), has victims you don’t care about, and looks as murky as the sound is muddy. (Whole chunks of the beginning are mumbled.) The blood-spurting, faces-blown-off gore that finally arrives after a crawling start doesn’t rate as much … Continue reading GREEN ROOM
HARDCORE HENRY
— by Jeff Schultz SHOOT ‘EM UP meets CRANK in this teenage boy’s wet dream of a never-stopping, all-shooting, all-killing, blood-spattered and literally gut-wrenching, endlessly brutal exemplar of bang-bang bravado.This is a movie whose excess is the point, whose body count must rank among the highest ever, but whose storyline is barely comprehensible (to me, … Continue reading HARDCORE HENRY
THE BOSS
— by Jeff Schultz At some point, we hope, a project will come along that makes full use of Melissa McCarthy’s talent. THE BOSS ain’t it. It’s a mess, and although I can’t come down too hard on it, since I did laugh out loud often, the plot is thin, the complication sappy, the outcome … Continue reading THE BOSS
THE INVITATION
— Jeff Schultz There are two gripping scenes in this tense but overlong thriller which may make you thirsty because its premise requires swallowing a pretty big grain of salt. One involves the lead (Logan Marshall-Green) and key recipient of the dinner party invitation, who is skeptical from the get-go and who a little past … Continue reading THE INVITATION
HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS
— by Jeff Schultz One of our Fox-11 Entertainment anchors raved about this movie, mostly because of Sally Field’s star turn. Field, as usual, shines. But it was another name that got me into the theater: Michael Showalter, a genius of American comedy, whether as actor, writer, or here as writer-director. And although this is … Continue reading HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS
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