Balder bless filmmakers who know how to make a 90-minute movie. Seems like everything these days is a 2 hour and 45 minute epic, and that’s fine, but sometimes I just want to watch a movie that’s not going to involve hitting pause so I can take the dog out. With THE VAST OF NIGHT […]
Read More The Vast of Night: A Mark Bousquet ReviewI’ve never watched SOYLENT GREEN because I know how it ends. Dumb. If you are like me and have avoided watching the movie because you know the big twist (which I won’t give away on the odd chance you’ve never heard of the film), rectify that mistake. Because while I knew where SOYLENT ended up, […]
Read More Soylent Green: A Mark Bousquet ReviewFrom the “Coming 2 Nostalgia” File…Both Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall have remarked that they never intended to make a sequel to “COMING TO AMERICA.” Yet they decided to do one eventually because over the years, fans of the film kept asking if there would be one and they felt compelled to catch up to […]
Read More Coming 2 America: A Sean E. Ali ReviewAn intense meditation on manhood and loneliness, POINT BLANK is a stylish thriller directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin. An adaptation of Donald Westlake’s first Parker novel, The Hunter, Marvin growls and stares and sulks his way through one of his best pictures. Walker (renamed from the novel) is tough guy criminal who’s […]
Read More Point Blank: A Mark Bousquet ReviewIf you like movies, go watch THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. (It’s streaming on Prime.) I almost don’t want to say anything about it because it’s such a unique film. It’s brilliant and terrible and confused and purposeful. It’s a mess and it always knows what it is. Things happen that have no bearing on anything else, […]
Read More The Ninth Configuration: A Mark Bousquet ReviewCome for the set designs, stick around for the costumes, marvel at how the power of Farrah Fawcett’s feathered hairstyle is impervious to the passing of centuries, and do your best to ignore everything else. LOGAN’S RUN is never better than an okay, but is nonetheless so 1970s it is well worth a watch. It […]
Read More Logan’s Run: A Mark Bousquet ReviewHARLOTS 2017-2019 3 Seasons/24 Episodes Monumental Pictures Created by Alison Newman/Moira Buffini Based on “The Covent Garden Ladies” by Hallie Rubenhold Available for streaming on Hulu My wife Patricia greatly enjoyed “Bridgerton” as did millions of others and so she cast about the other streaming services looking for something similar. A few days later I […]
Read More HarlotsTONIGHT – “OFF LIMITS” (1988 / dir. – Christopher Crowe) Lately I’ve found myself defending films which weren’t necessarily critical (or even audience) darlings at the box office. Well, in all honesty not just “lately” – haha! But, hey, judging a film based on its box office (or even critical praise … or lack thereof) […]
Read More Off Limits: A Review By Craig Ellis Jamison2020 Snoot Entertainment/ABKCO/Amazon Studios Directed by Regina King Screenplay by Kemp PowersBased on “One Night In Miami” by Kemp Powers Produced by Jess Wu Calder/Keith Calder/Jodi Klein Music by Terence Blanchard Cinematography by Tami Reiker Edited by Tariq Anwar Not being a filmmaker, I can only imagine how a director would go about directing a […]
Read More One Night In Miami…2020 Jam21 Entertainment/Seven Word Letter Films/Amazon Studios Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe Produced by Eugene Ashe/Nnamdi Asomugha/Gabrielle Glore/Jonathan Baker/Matthew Thurm Music by Fabrice Lecomte Cinematography by Declan Quinn Edited by Dana Congdon While it isn’t necessary to be familiar with the films of Douglas Sirk to enjoy SYLVIE’S LOVE it also doesn’t hurt to […]
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