Category: Theatrical Review

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December 18, 2018

Mary Poppins Returns: If You Say It Loud Enough, by David Bax

If you come to Disney movies looking for dead parents, Mary Poppins Returns has what you’re looking for and then some. In this sequel set some three decades after the original film, not only are both the Banks parents long gone,...

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December 13, 2018

Mortal Engines: Dys-trope-ia, by David Bax

Mortal Engines is a surprisingly fitting name for what is, hopefully, the last tired attempt at a YA dystopian franchise starter to cough and sputter its way into theaters. Like most of the others, it takes place in a distant...

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December 12, 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Web Warriors, by David Bax

With a screenplay by Phil Lord of The Lego Movie and Jump Street reboot fame and a plot that includes a half dozen different versions of Spider-Man in varying degree of obscurity from the comic book’s long and many-tentacled run,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 12, 2018

If Beale Street Could Talk: The Fire This Time, by David Bax

With 2016’s brilliant blue Moonlight and even with 2008’s nearly monochromatic Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins has made it clear how much he values the use of color as a means of transmitting moods, situations, stories and fates. With his newest...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 11, 2018

Bird Box: Alone in the Dark, by David Bax

Is anything actually worth living for against all odds or do we just soldier on out of primal instincts of self-preservation? It’s a solemn question to ponder, which is perhaps why Susanne Bier’s Bird Box only really goes so far as to...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 7, 2018

Dumplin’: Where the Tea Is Sweet and the Love Complete, by David Bax

Dolly Parton’s contributions to Anne Fletcher’s Dumplin’ are all over the movie (about a young woman who idolizes the country singer/songwriter), including some brand new songs. But she probably also deserves a credit for the screenplay’s source material since the...

josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 5, 2018

Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long

The transition from actor to director isn’t always a smooth one but Brady Corbet is making that move quietly and deftly. His debut feature, 2015’s haunting The Childhood of a Leader flew under the radar for most moviegoers, but was...

josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 3, 2018

Tyrel: Speak Up, by Josh Long

Despite what you might hear from some of society’s louder voices, awareness of racism in its many forms is growing in the United States. Perhaps the racist voices themselves have gotten louder at the same time, but studies show that...

jeremy elder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 29, 2018

The Great Buddha+: A Rocky Landing, by Jeremy Elder

The audience response to Huang Hsin-yao’s The Great Buddha+ can be best encapsulated by the old woman in the theater who left the screening early and whispered to me, “I’m sorry to squeeze past you, it’s just this movie isn’t...

chase beck / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 29, 2018

Tiger: Rocky Going, by Chase Beck

Tiger is meant to be an inspiring story about a Sikh, Pardeep Singh Nagra (played by Prem Singh), who defied all odds to do what he loved, competitive boxing. I was initially intrigued by the film because it is based...

Category: Theatrical Review

Mary Poppins Returns: If You Say It Loud Enough, by David Bax

Mortal Engines: Dys-trope-ia, by David Bax

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Web Warriors, by David Bax

If Beale Street Could Talk: The Fire This Time, by David Bax

Bird Box: Alone in the Dark, by David Bax

Dumplin’: Where the Tea Is Sweet and the Love Complete, by David Bax

Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long

Tyrel: Speak Up, by Josh Long

The Great Buddha+: A Rocky Landing, by Jeremy Elder

Tiger: Rocky Going, by Chase Beck

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