No lie! Young Washington a solid biopic On the 250th anniversary of the United States, the Revolutionary War is having a moment. From Ken Burns’ six-part docuseries The American Revolution, a series of New York Times’ articles reassessing key figures and events to numerous other events and writings, the conflict that gave birth to our […]
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Deep Water better than expected, message gets lost in Animal Farm remake
Water deeper than expected In the spirit of giving credit where it’s due, my hat’s off to director Renny Harlan and screenwriters Pete Bridges, Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause and Damien Power, where their latest film, Deep Water, is concerned. All involved obviously embraced the notion of making the ultimate disaster movie, shamelessly cribbing from The […]
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Iron Man 3 a clunky debut for Marvel’s second phase
Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 has the unenviable task of following Joss Whedon’s widely entertaining The Avengers as the next Marvel Studios movie out of the chute. Too bad that Iron Man 3 gets the company’s second phase off to a bad start. Illogical, scattered and underdeveloped, the film plays like a rush job, littered […]
