Disney is trying to push old stock in a pandemic with reopened movie theaters showing The Personal History of David Copperfield, which ended up on a shelf after the company purchased Fox Searchlight. You can’t blame the company for having no idea how to handle this disappointing adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel from director… Continue reading The Personal History of David Copperfield
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Avengers: Endgame
Okay, so first off, [spoiler!], but then [spoiler!] happens, totally throwing a curve ball into all the [spoiler!], but it’s fine, take a breath, since [spoiler!] all of a sudden [spoiler!] and [spoiler] and [spoiler!][spoiler!](holy shit!)[spoiler!], but not for long, since [spoiler!] comes back, and [spoiler!] disappears and [spoiler!] beats the tar outta [spoiler!] just… Continue reading Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
“The Avengers protect the world from physical danger. We save it from more mystical threats.” – Wong, a librarian. Doctor Strange is the perfect Marvel movie, perfectly cast with Benedict Cumberbatch as a physically injured surgeon who goes to Nepal searching to be healed and is taught magic instead. One sentence and you have the… Continue reading Doctor Strange
Only Lovers Left Alive
Any vampire movie that opens up on a 7-incher spinning out Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel of Love” has to be onto something more than the usual fang-banging cliches, especially when the tune itself is a cover version – slowed to a haunted crawl with a surplus of fuzz and grind – performed by the film’s director… Continue reading Only Lovers Left Alive