I caught an evening showing of Chevalier last night and when the credits rolled I couldn’t help but exclaim “What an useful idiot!”. This film arrived in an apt time where entertainer Jonathan Majors is losing what little status he has as an entertainer in European society. There were multiple points in the film where… Read More: MOVIE REVIEW: CHEVALIER »
The grainy VHS memory I had from a childhood viewing of Flashdance could not hold a candle to what I saw on-screen as I attended the 40th anniversary celebration of Adrian Lyne’s sensual masterpiece. Yes, the shots are heavy on erotica, but the scenes are so tasteful and artistically rendered every one of the scenes shot… Read More: RETRO MOVIE REVIEW: FLASHDANCE »
Lee Cronin has hit the box office with an excellent big budget debut. Taking all the humor and tropes from previous iterations of Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, Cronin made the bold move of scripting a family in an apartment in Cali, instead of the usual cabin in the woods bit for Evil Dead… Read More: MOVIE REVIEW: Evil Dead Rise »
I am not sure what possessed Cineworld to air a double feature of The Donner Superman films this week, but I was all for it, especially since I had seen all of the Superman films starring Christopher Reeves growing up, but the legendary Superman II. I have to say the Donner Cut of Superman II… Read More: RETRO MOVIE REVIEW: Superman II : The Richard Donner Cut »
Whatever oedipal issues Ari Aster has, he really needs to keep it to himself. “Beau Is Afraid” is more “Beau Is A Boomerang”, as in a boomerang kid. There is no handbook to marriage, no handbook to parenting or fulfilling gender roles but in Aster’s world, there are, and every patriarchal figure (whether absent or… Read More: MOVIE REVIEW: Beau Is Afraid »
Bianca Belair was billed to compete with Asuka for the Raw Women’s Championship to see if she could keep the title for a full year, since her current reign began at Wrestlemania 38.Arriving with an army of Comptonites (The young Divas of Compton dancers, that probably rode the Rosecrans route to get to the So-Fi… Read More: WRESTLING REVIEW: Wrestlemania 39 : Raw Women’s Championship Match »
Being a native of Killafornia, I can no less than concur that L.A. is Sin City. And though the 39th Wrestlemania was thrown on the 1st of April in Inglewood (a city in L.A. County for those of you unfamiliar with the layout of my desert) the aura of the city rang out throughout the… Read More: WRESTLING REVIEW: Wrestlemania 39 : Six-Woman Tag Match »
For moviegoers like myself tired of the constant injection of feminist and divestment genealogical tropes in modern cinema, Anthony Diblasi has arrived with Malum – a gory, psychological thriller to splatter blood in the face of what constitutes today’s woke feature presentations. Shot in the state where Sandra Bland got popped, Malum stars Jessica Sula… Read More: MOVIE REVIEW: Malum »
Teyana Taylor excels at her opportunity to do as Angela Bassett and Viola Davis before her, portraying the Sapphire role that has been responsible for traumatizing and damaging so many U.S. melaninated males in A Thousand And One, a film with a title that boasts rarity, but is a story seen and lived far too… Read More: MOVIE REVIEW: A Thousand In One »
A surprise from one of the Golden Era’s most recognizable and oft-kilter voices fused with the live instrumentation sample selection of Real Bad Man, Kool Keith’s “Serpent” has arrived just in time to celebrate the Spring Equinox ringing in the year of the Snake. Surrounded with the loose narration of a therapy session with a… Read More: MUSIC REVIEW: KOOL KEITH & REAL BAD MAN – SERPENT »