After two shaky movies, is the third time a charm for Roger Moore’s James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me?
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Month: July 2015
ANT-MAN Review: Marvel Gets Intimate
An Ant-Man movie was always going to be an uphill battle. Even with Marvel making household names out of second-string characters like Iron Man and Thor (think back a decade and recall their relative obscurity to the public at large), Ant-Man was weirder and more idiosyncratic than anything that had come before, with the possible of exception of Guardians of The Galaxy. But could lightning strike twice? (more…)
IRRATIONAL MAN Review: Woody Allen’s Latest Mixes Philosophy & Murder
Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone are a knockout pair of actors and Woody Allen is prolific enough (steadily churning out a movie a year) that he can’t help but hit the mark occasionally (see Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine for recent examples). Irrational Man has a chance at greatness, but does it fall into the increasingly large pile of Allen’s many misses? (more…)
The James Bond Rewatch: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974)
Roger Moore returns as James Bond and faces off against the superfluous-nipple villain Scaramanga in the funhouse weirdness of The Man with the Golden Gun.
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CARTEL LAND Review: A Tale Of Two Drug Wars
It opens with a scene straight out of Breaking Bad – a group of masked men are cooking barrel loads of meth by moonlight. The Mexican cartel members even mention that they were taught by a father and son team from America, reminding viewers of Walter White and his surrogate son Jesse Pinkman. (more…)
KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER Review: A Dark Riff On A Coen Classic
Based on a bizarre urban legend that found a movie-obsessed Japanese woman travelling to Minnesota in search of the fictional briefcase full of money from the movie Fargo, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter builds on the Coen Brothers classic while weaving its own deeply dark and disturbingly odd tale. (more…)
The James Bond Rewatch: LIVE AND LET DIE (1973)
Sean Connery’s out and Roger Moore’s in as 007 in the blaxploitation-era Bond pic with the killer theme song – Live and Let Die.
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DOPE Review: More Than A Millenial Boyz n the Hood
Pulsing with energy and gleefully flouting the established rules of black coming-of-age stories, Dope charts its own path by playing with convention and giving voice to a burgeoning new generation. (more…)
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