This is an entertaining movie, with a terrific lead performance from Mikey Madison. It is a broad and profane slapstick comedy, mixed with some real darkness as to how the rich and powerful, here the team of a Russian oligarch, run roughshod over those in a lower economic strata. Considering the current state of America, it is a timely message, and one becoming more timely at an exponential pace. That kind of took the edge off the humor a little for…
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Notes on a Scandal 2006
A fine drama anchored by two master actresses. Judi Dench plays a veteran teacher who takes an unhealthy interest in Cate Blanchett’s character, a new teacher at the school. Blanchett’s character takes an unhealthy interest in a 15 year old boy who is a student. Dench’s character learns of Blanchett’s character’s misdeeds, and seeks to turn them to her advantage. Blanchett is engaging in criminal behavior, but Dench is slowly revealed as a rather despicable character in her own right.…
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The Aviator 2004
So I call myself a movie and Scorsese fan, but just saw this for the first time. Go figure. It’s quite a movie. Hughes died when I was a teenager, and at the time, I read about his last days, the late period Las Vegas recluse phase, and I had never gone far beyond that in my knowledge of Hughes, with the exception of his time in Hollywood (which generally interested me more than aviation). That long haired, bearded, saving…
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Elvis Presley: The Searcher 2018
I was 15 when Elvis died. I had certainly always appreciated Elvis voice and his songs. But there was a heavy kitsch factor to Elvis that was kind of off putting. It was more than that; it was like an impenetrable cloud that blocked out full appreciation for Elvis as an artist. And, in retrospect, my God, was he an artist. He was a soul singer. Singing from his soul. This film makes it clear, and clarification was desperately…
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