Films made as book adaptations are often hard enough. You don’t always know what you’re going to get on the screen. But sometimes you’re really impressed. So when I heard Spike Jonze was making a film of “Where the Wild Tings Are”, I was alternately delighted and wary. How do you make a movie…
Details“Amelia” is the story of Amelia Earhart portrayed by Hilary Swank, who you may know at the… OMG, I’m bored just thinking about it. This is the most boring biopic of any I’ve seen. From the first line I was bored. And there’s no reason to be bored. It’s Amelia Earhart, known for having…
DetailsIf you want to see Good Hair and you don’t live in a predominantly Black neighborhood you have to go to a predominantly Black neighborhood. This review will reflect my “Black Experience” (Version 2.0 – I took Intro To Black Experience when I taught Head Start in Milwaukee in 1990). The film was…
DetailsUgh! I got the first Twilight. I liked it. I’m not in the desired demographic, but I get it. It’s a sexy teen vampire romance. Who wouldn’t like that? Hot vampire Edward Cullen is a bad boy. He thirsts for his girlfriend’s blood. That’s the ultimate bad boy. But this movie, the second…
DetailsWhen you watch a movie like 2012, the last thing on the studio’s mind is movie reviews. They just don’t matter. So what can I say about 2012 other than the fact that it was absurdly entertaining to watch a movie made inside a computer by a director who has the emotional development of…
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