Right on schedule, here’s another Disney live-action remake of one of their animated films. (*scream*) This time it’s a remake of the beloved 1953 classic Peter Pan, the timeless story by J.M. Barrie, based on his 1904 stage play, Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. To date, there have been many, many…
Based on the controversial 1970 novel by Judy Blume, she refused for an astonishing 49 years to have her book brought to the screen. It dealt with frank and open discussions of girls & sex, bras, menstruation, boys, and religious ideals. But after seeing Edge of Seventeen by director/writer Kelly Fremon Craig, the long reluctant…
In a departure for Ritchie from his usual crime thrillers (RocknRolla, Wrath of Man, The Gentlemen, and his most recent Operation: Fortune) this is a wartime saga set in Afghanistan. Originally titled The Interpreter in 2021, Ritchie altered the title in 2022 after several studios changed hands. Although not a fact-based movie, it has all…
Right around the same time as Mozart, there was another lesser-known composer. His name was Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a brilliant French Creole virtuoso violinist & composer. You probably never heard of him because of the color of his skin. This is kinda-sorta his story. I say “kinda-sorta” because this movie starts with a lie:…
What if. . . John Wick and Rambo had a kid back in WWII in Finland, and he had the same insatiable thirst for killing Nazis like in one of Tarantino’s movies? Then you’d have this wildly bloody actioner from the land of Christmas trees and reindeer. It’s 1944 and the Germans (who all speak…
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