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LABYRINTH Old Movie Review

April 24, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

LABYRINTH Old Movie Review

Jim Henson’s 1986 musical/fantasy Labyrinth is a cult film in the purest sense. There’s nothing contrived or expected about the Renaissance this film has experienced. Like all great movies that acquire belated devotion after their disastrous initial release, this one began its film life as a crushing failure. Despite being produced by George Lucas, directed […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Brian Froud, David Bowie, George Lucas, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, labyrinth, Maurice Sendak, Terry Jones

RAMPAGE New Movie Review

April 13, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

RAMPAGE New Movie Review

Early into Peter Berg’s still-fantastic 2003 action/comedy The Rundown, Dwayne Johnson walks into a bar (stop me if you’ve heard this one) and bumps into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ah-Nuld taps Johnson on the shoulder, says, “Have fun in there” and literally walks out of Johnson’s movie. The moment is a symbolic gesture on Schwarzenegger’s part, as […]

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Film Critique Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Naomie Harris, Rampage, video game

A QUIET PLACE New Movie Review

April 6, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

A QUIET PLACE New Movie Review

The introductory scenes of A Quiet Place allow the audience to enter a world so intriguing that many will find themselves obeying the film’s core rule to remain silent. The film opens on “Day 89” of a world where humankind appears to have either gone missing or become mostly extinct. As a man (played by […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: A Quiet Place, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Michael Bay

READY PLAYER ONE New Movie Review

March 30, 2018 by Barry Wurst II 1 Comment

READY PLAYER ONE New Movie Review

In 2045, Wade Watts (played by Tye Sheridan) escapes from his dreary reality by entering a virtual reality world called The Oasis. While everyone living in Watt’s home of The Stacks (with living quarters of trailers and junk piled high and tight) plays in this digital world, Watts is attempting to uncover a puzzle within […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Alan Silvestri, Ben Mendelsohn, Ernest Cline, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan

PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING New Movie Review

March 27, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING New Movie Review

Following the events of Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro’s charmless, bloated 2013 film, the world has been rid of the gigantic Kaiju monsters and the massive Jaeger robots are no longer needed. At least, that’s how it is for a few minutes of Pacific Rim: Uprising, in which John Boyega stars as the son of […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Burn Gorman, Charlie Day, Guillermo Del Toro, Idris Elba, John Boyega, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rinko Kikuchi, Scott Eastwood, Stephen S. DeKnight, TOHO

TOMB RAIDER New Movie Review

March 19, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

TOMB RAIDER New Movie Review

Does anyone really want to see Lara Croft’s origin story? Specifically, do we really care about the life of one of the all-time most famous video game characters, before she was super-cool? Think about this for a moment. If you imagine Croft as intelligent, attractive and fierce, wearing shorts and a tank top while scaling […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Alicia Vikander, Derek Jacobi, Dominic West, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, Walton Goggins

THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT New Movie Review

March 12, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT New Movie Review

Ten years later, somebody finally made a sequel to the horror hit The Strangers and proved that, once again, some movies absolutely do not need a sequel. Here, a family of four (led by Mad Men star Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson, the lead in the Ice Cube-led fiasco Torque) go on a road trip […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: A Flock of Seagulls, Air Supply, Bryan Bertino, Christina Hendricks, Liv Tyler, Martin Henderson, Scott Speedman, The Strangers: Prey At Night, Zeke the dog

RED SPARROW New Movie Review

March 6, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

RED SPARROW New Movie Review

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Dominika, a Russian Bolshoi Ballet dancer whose promising career is cut painfully short. An onstage injury redirects Dominika into a life of spying, as her uncle (played by Matthias Schoenaerts) enlists her in the Russian intelligence-sponsored “Sparrow” program. Dominika must endure living in a remote location, where she is trained to […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Charlotte Rampling, Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Irons, Joel Edgerton, Red Sparrow

ANNIHILATION New Movie Review

February 26, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

ANNIHILATION New Movie Review

Writer/director Alex Garland’s Annihilation is about duality, specifically the uncomfortable contrast between suicide and self-destruction. Because it’s a such a predictable, lumbering and thoroughly unpleasant film, it seems to have much less on its mind. Natalie Portman portrays Lena, a soldier turned biologist who’s abducted and forced to take part in a bizarre mission. Three […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Alex Garland, Annihilation, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson

THE DARK CRYSTAL Old Movie Review

February 21, 2018 by Barry Wurst II 1 Comment

THE DARK CRYSTAL Old Movie Review

Jim Henson had nothing to prove when he made The Dark Crystal. In fact, as legacies go, his was already staggering. At that point in his career, having been the creative force behind Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and the still-magical The Muppet Movie, Henson came across like the cuddlier, wilder Walt Disney. Henson’s works […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Frank Oz, Jim Henson, The Dark Crystal

FIFTY SHADES FREED New Movie Review

February 12, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

FIFTY SHADES FREED New Movie Review

So here we are, the third film based on the publishing sensation, created by E.L. James as Twilight fan fiction, which she transformed into a trio of hilariously crappy “books.” Hearing my wife read me aloud passages of those unfathomable bestsellers was such a riot that we’ve gone to every one of these movies on […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Dakota Johnson, E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed, Jamie Dornan, Kim Basinger, Marcia Gay Harden

WINCHESTER New Movie Review

February 6, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

WINCHESTER New Movie Review

My wife Julia first told me about the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. She told me how, as a child, her mother took her and her siblings there, which has 160 rooms, trap doors and passages and stairs leading nowhere. The massive house, full of random, puzzling touches meant to confuse ghosts, is […]

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Film Critique Tagged With: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Sarah Winchester, The Spierig Brothers, Winchester, Winchester Mystery House

PHANTOM THREAD New Movie Review

January 29, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

PHANTOM THREAD New Movie Review

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is set in post-World War II London and centers around an upscale clothing designer named Reynolds Woodcock (played by Daniel Day-Lewis). While Woodcock’s clothing is gorgeous, lush and exquisite, his life has a hermetically sealed quality, as his daily schedule, work habits and tolerance for anyone outside his home is […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jonny Greenwood, Lesley Manville, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Vicky Krieps

HOSTILES New Movie Review

January 22, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

HOSTILES New Movie Review

The opening scene of Scott Cooper’s Hostiles is so unflinchingly harsh and violent, it may cause some audience members to check out early. In the establishing moments, we meet Rosalie Quaid (played by Rosamund Pike), as she’s homeschooling her children while her husband sits close by. Since the setting is 1892 and their home is […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Adam Beach, Ben Foster, Christian Bale, Hostiles, Jesse Plemons, Q'orianka Kilcher, Rory Cochrane, Rosamund Pike, Scott Cooper, Stephen Lang, Wes Studi, western

I, TONYA New Movie Review

January 15, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

I, TONYA New Movie Review

I remember vividly watching the 1994 Olympic figure skating competition, if only because it presented a match the whole world was eager to witness. After overcoming a mysterious assailant who clubbed her in the knee cap, Nancy Kerrigan returned to the ice and skated her heart out. Competing against her was Tonya Harding, who many […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Allison Janney, I Tonya, Margot Robbie, Nancy Kerrigan, Sebastian Stan, Tonya Harding

THE POST New Movie Review

January 8, 2018 by Barry Wurst II Leave a Comment

THE POST New Movie Review

In 1971, The Washington Post and The New York Times published revealing, damaging and highly classified documents involving the Vietnam War. These documents, called “the Pentagon Papers” and leaked by US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, unveiled shocking revelations regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War. In this Steven Spielberg-directed dramatization, Tom Hanks plays Ben Bradlee, […]

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Filed Under: Film Critique Tagged With: Ben Bagdikian, Ben Bradlee, Bob Odenkirk, Daniel Ellsberg, Kay Graham, Meryl Streep, New York Times, Pentagon Papers, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks, Vietnam War, Washington Post

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