THE FALL GUY
Everything was going so well. He had the girl of his dreams and the job of a lifetime. Both were filled with the promise of bigger and better things, and both the boy and the girl saw each other in … Continue reading THE FALL GUY
Tag: Emily Blunt
And the nominees are…
On Friday, Jan. 5, the Denver Film Critics Society—19 writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2023. In total, 33 movies received nominations, with … Continue reading And the nominees are…
OPPENHEIMER
Long before Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, even before he first glimpsed his creation two weeks earlier at Trinity, J. Robert Oppenheimer was haunted by the bomb. Played by Cillian Murphy and … Continue reading OPPENHEIMER
JUNGLE CRUISE
They needn’t have bothered. Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest live-action cinematic adaptation of a theme park ride, was already a classic Hollywood adventure before it became a pun-laden excursion down African and Asian rivers. That movie was 1951’s The African Queen, the key … Continue reading JUNGLE CRUISE
A QUIET PLACE PART II
A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow Like a lot of you, I spent 2020 at home. And, as you probably know, that meant an awful lot … Continue reading A QUIET PLACE PART II
WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
Anthony (Jamie Dornan) likes flowers. He also likes Rosemary (Emily Blunt) but has a hard time telling her so. He has a hard time telling her about the flowers, too. There’s a lot that Anthony and Rosemary don’t say—to each … Continue reading WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Rachel (Emily Blunt) has problems. As she rides the train from Manhattan out to White Plains, NY, she gazes wistfully out her window at all those pretty houses full of pretty people living their pretty lives. How nice it would … Continue reading THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
EDGE OF TOMORROW
Major Cage (Tom Cruise) is a bit of a weasel. The aliens have landed on Earth and started a hopeless war, and Cage hasn’t lifted a finger to do anything about it. He is the PR man for the United … Continue reading EDGE OF TOMORROW
LOOPER
Looper is writer/director Rian Johnson’s third film and his second teaming with actor Joseph-Gordon Levitt. It might also be his most successful. Johnson is a genre director, or at the very least, a student of genre, and tries his best to … Continue reading LOOPER
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