Category: Film Reviews
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The Comey Rule Series: An Attempt to Rewrite History
With regards to the Clinton investigation, Comey has an internal struggle: Should he do the right thing, even if people don’t like the outcome?
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Film Review: 65, Sentimental Sci-Fi
65 is a sci-fi film which explores the theme of a father’s love for his daughter, and the pathos when he can no longer protect her.
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Film Review: Trees of Peace
It’s a low-budget film that might test the attention span of viewers who are not already disposed to be interested in the topic of the Rwandan genocide.
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Film Review: Some Like It Hot, Monroe Plays Herself
The film is worth a watch based solely on the jazz and swing music, and other ballads featuring Monroe’s adroit vocal stylings.
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Avatar: The Way of the Water and Reverse-Assimilation
In a case of reverse-assimilation, it isn’t the indigenous that adapt in Avatar: The Way of the Water; it is those from the first world.
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Elvis’s Best Film: King Creole
Elvis may have preferred to be a more serious actor without the musical numbers. Unfortunately for him, he’s Elvis. People want to hear him sing and dance.
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Film Review: Sean Penn’s Into the Wild
Whereas in the book Christopher McCandless does not display any particular literary skill, in the film, Emile Hirsch’s Christopher McCandless is a veritable poet.
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Stutz: a Different Side of Jonah Hill
Despite his demons, and significant emotional distress, Hill’s struggle against his existential angst is admirable.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the Marilyn Monroe Mystique
Marilyn Monroe is veritably the prototype “dumb blonde.” As with any stereotype, there is a grain of truth.