What we have here with X is a good, old-fashioned slice-’em-up homage to 1970s grindhouse flicks. Specifically, 1979, wherein we find Maxine (Mia Goth), she of the constellation of a birthmark over one eye, determined to escape the drab life of a stripper in the even drabber boondocks of Texas. Thanks to her boyfriend Wayne… Read More »
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RING, THE
All that THE RING asks of us is to bide our time until the dynamite last 20 minutes or so, when all questions are answered, all patience is rewarded, and the preparations for the sequel can begin. For the other 95 minutes, we must watch an interesting premise made as bland and colorless as the rain-washed streets… Read More »
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
When Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice two hundred or so years ago, she was doing more than telling a story about lovers at cross purposes, she was also dissecting with her society with a deadly precision and wry humor. Gurinder Chadha has taken that classic story and updated it to the multicultural 21st century… Read More »
FLYBOYS
Back in 1966, The Royal Guardsmen scored a hit with a minor novelty classic called “Snoopy and the Red Baron” about the imaginary World War I exploits dreamed up by Charlie Brown’s beagle. I bring this up because in FLYBOYS, one of the American pilots fighting World War I in the Lafayette Escadrille has the… Read More »