I'm pretty burnt out on live action redos of Disney animated films but I did have some high hopes for Peter Pan & Wendy seeing how director David Lowery already made some magic with his live action take on Pete's Dragon. Not to mention he's the filmmaking visionary behind such modern gems as Ain't Them Bodies Saints, A Ghost Story, The Old Man and The Gun and his masterpiece The Green Knight. Unfortunately that same sense of wonder and heart is…
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Showing Up 2022
The films of writer-director Kelly Reichardt are like sumptuous little short stories that pack a wallop. Showing Up might be her best effort to date which is saying something given films like Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Certain Women and First Cow. Showing Up also reunites her with her frequent collaborator Michelle Williams, who turns in a bravura performance in this quiet character study.
Williams stars as Lizzy, a sculptor in Oregon who is one week away from a gallery…
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Sambizanga 1972
A masterpiece. You've seldom seen a film bursting with such beautiful, arresting visuals as Sarah Maldoror's 1972 triumph Sambizanga. The French-born Maldoror (who died last year from COVID) studied film in Moscow with Ousmane Sembene and worked as an assitant on Gillo Pontecorvo's landmark The Battle of Algiers, and is undoubtedly one of the great voices in cinema history even if she didnt make a lot of feature narrative films.
Shot in the Congo, which stands in for Angola, Sambizanga…
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Robin Hood 2018
The 2018 version of Robin Hood is definitely in the running as one of the worst movies of the year. Talk about a movie that falls flat. Whats worse is how its drink on its own false sense of cool. This one is the umpteenth version of the outlaw story that includes the awful Kevin Costner vehicle Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the middling 2010 Robin Hood from Ridley Scott. This new Robin is played by the smokin hot…
