Saturday, May 21, 2022
I sorta and regrettably watched the worse guns, bombs, knives and ninja-kickfighting, cellphone-obsessed, closed-space action film...."NON-STOP"..from the too-young producer of KICKASS 2, Jeff Wadlow.....Even with great actors...in this drivel for the bucks Mall movie...... The cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o and Linus Roache should turn their "serious" acting shingles to the wall~! This movie makes even Marvel and D.C. Comics junk seem intellectually valid and plot-perfect......I should have taken a clue, since it was double-billed with a billion buck comic book adaptaflic, CAPTAIN AMERICA....something or another capeless men-in-lycra movie.......
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
BENEDICT REDOES ST. AUBYN
I'm eager to rewatch Benedict Cumberbatch's brilliant....as always.... undertaking, PATRICK
MELROSE......Each of the Five-part installments adapts a single St. Aubyn
novel.....in the ongoing tradition of simplifying complex material into less
than anti-Tolstoyian or anti-Dickensonian abbreviatorialness...following the
cocaine and heroine trail conceit of the novels, unravelling the word-fabric of
the protagonist's tale of compulsive addictions, by depicting ....in
'days'....the "new, out of order, style" that permeates television series,
manufactured for the shorter attention spans of the ADD
Generation.....Stylistically, this 'technique' is also being employed in the
"Genius: Picasso" series....Piece it all together for a succinctly artistic
adaptation of largely overlooked writing ...with the brilliant
Benedict!......."Bad News" may be "Good News" for Serial Showtime....