The Mule movie review: the old man and the drugs
Welcome to Peak Apologetics for the Bullshit of White Men, replete with many appalling messages about their endless entitlement to redemption and forgiveness. And as a bonus, it’s racist and sexist.
Forrest Gump
Welcome to Marwen movie review: toying with our sympathy
The plastic terror of The Polar Express melded with the kooky charm of Forrest Gump is a bad, sometimes outright icky, way to tell a tale of trauma and recovery, and does a disservice to Steve Carell’s sensitive performance.
Bright movie review: every little thing it does is the opposite of magic
Trolls the viewer and condescends to genre fans. A smirking, tone-deaf parable about racism that is itself racist, including about its made-up orcs and elves.
CHiPs movie review: they promised chip would happen, and it did
Toilet humor, cars exploding for no reason, random naked boobies, and gay panic… although, weirdly, also lots of awkward, unerotic nearly naked Dax Shepard.
London photo: advertising is as advertising does
Do they have an ISA that invests in some sort of fruit company?
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared movie review: yes, that’s what he does
An absurdist mock epic that is hilarious, outrageous, and completely insane. It’s like a bonkers Swedish Forrest Gump.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 5-11 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me):
Friday night fortune cookie: Forrest Gump says…
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
question of the day: Which Oscar-winning Best Picture is least deserving of that award?
Recently the members of the Online Film Critics Society were polled to see which Oscar-winning Best Picture we thought was least deserving of that honor. The “winner”? Crash, which won Best Picture for 2005. Other films that garnered more than one vote (links go to my reviews): 2001: A Beautiful Mind 2000: Gladiator 1997: Titanic … more…
A Christmas Carol (review)
Robert Zemeckis appears to have given up making fantasies for grownups in favor of making theme-park attractions designed to do nothing more than shut the kiddies up for 90 minutes, if they can sit still for that long for the dazzling…
