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M.C. Myers

Locating Realism in The Revenant

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Revenant

The Revenant is a powerful statement on cinematic realism affected but not marred by its real toil. It’s old cinema made epic again.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Alejandro Inarritu, Based on a Book, Biopic, Emmanuel Lubezki, Leonardo DiCaprio, Revenge Thriller, Tom Hardy Leave a comment

Interstellar: Feeling Machine

April 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Interstellar’s brilliant technical filmmaking hinges on a story thwarted by melodrama. Its head is full of ideas, but its heart is empty.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, Hoyte Van Hoytema, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Sci Fi, Science Fiction Leave a comment

Let Me In: Warm Leftovers

April 20, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Let Me In

Let Me In is an arousing remake that makes a cautionary tale more streamlined, romantic, and cathartic, three things it probably never intended to be.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Chloe Grace Moretz, Greig Fraser, Horror, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Matt Reeves, Vampire Leave a comment

Exorcist II: The Heretic – Horror as Anti-Horror

April 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Exorcist II Linda Blair

Despite its meandering awkwardness, one of the most hated horror films of all time features a compelling creative vision and the visuals of an epic.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1970s, Horror, John Boorman, Linda Blair, Movie Series, Richard Burton, Sequel, Thriller Leave a comment

Why Army of the Dead Should Not Be the Oscars Fan Favorite

April 9, 2022April 8, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Dave Bautista Army of the Dead

Army of the Dead’s ruthless devotion to plagiarization is its most passionate aspect. Less effort was never spent on a film so casually praised.

Categories Features, Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Academy Awards, Action, Dave Bautista, Horror, Netflix, Oscars, Tig Notaro, Zack Snyder, Zombie Leave a comment

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022): Glossy Legacy

March 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film is exactly what you would expect from rebooting this dirty series into the glossed-up legacy sequel model.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Elsie Fisher, Horror, Movie Series, Sequel, Slasher, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leave a comment

The Batman: V for Vengeance

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Batman

Admirably grounded and well-cast, The Batman tries its best to add relevance to a cluttered canon amid broken thriller mechanics and aloof dialogue.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Andy Serkis, Batman, Colin Farrell, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Matt Reeves, Movie Series, Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz Leave a comment

Zodiac: Memories of Murmur

April 8, 2022March 6, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Zodiac

The 15th anniversary of Zodiac is the perfect occasion to revisit David Fincher’s best film and see how the thriller epic holds up in 2022.

Categories Featured Article, Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2000s, Based on a Book, David Fincher, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Thriller Leave a comment

Batman: Unfinished Business

March 10, 2022March 3, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Batman

Batman reflects the charm and the cost of a script that was not properly finished. But its lead and its meticulous visual design still enchant.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Action, Batman, Comic Book Movie, Danny Elfman, DC Comics, Fantasy, Jack Nicholson, Kim Bassinger, Michael Keaton, Movie Series, Tim Burton Leave a comment

Batman Returns: Action Fairytale

February 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Batman Returns

Tim Burton’s Batman Returns is a dark Christmas fable, an action fairytale. It’s the whole experience of reading comics in one painful, beautiful mythology.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1990s, Batman, Christopher Walken, Comic Book Movie, Danny DeVito, DC, Fantasy, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Movie Series, Sequel, Superhero, Tim Burton 1 Comment

The Legend of Zelda and the Fantasy Feeling: Do Video Games Have to Be Art?

May 10, 2022February 21, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Legend of Zelda

On its anniversary, The Legend of Zelda is a still-brilliant piece of fantasy fiction and a discussion piece for the question of video games as art.

Categories Features Tags Fantasy, Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda, The Lord of the Rings, Video Games Leave a comment

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) – Schlock and Awe

February 22, 2022February 18, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jessica Biel

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake is far more willing to recreate its original than to understand it. The result is vile. And not in a good way.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2000s, Horror, Jessica Biel, Movie Series, Remake Leave a comment

Jurassic World Dominion Trailer: How Jurassic Park Evolved Into This

April 28, 2022February 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion is supposed to be the climax of decades of franchise build-up. Here are my thoughts on the trailer and how this series got here.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Laura Dern, Movie Series, Sam Neill, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

Zack Snyder vs Superman: Why Intent Became Conflict in Man of Steel

May 7, 2022February 2, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Man of Steel Zack Snyder

A response to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel as well as to the debates about it, including both its problematic execution and its honest desire for greatness.

Categories Features Tags 2010s, Action, Amy Adams, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, DCEU, Fantasy, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, Science Fiction, Superman, Zack Snyder Leave a comment

The Santa Clause 2: Carefree Christmas

May 13, 2022January 14, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Santa Clause 2 Tim Allen

The Santa Clause 2 has Tim Allen’s standup and farting reindeer, but it feels like Christmas. Let me explain why I keep watching it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2000s, Disney, Elizabeth Mitchell, Fantasy, Movie Series, Romance, Sequel, Tim Allen Leave a comment

Saint Maud: Timid Prophet

March 5, 2022January 6, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Saint Maud Morfydd Clark

Saint Maud is a confident debut from a promising filmmaker, but its self-imposed genre tropes become limitations that hold it back from greatness.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Horror, Jennifer Ehle, Morfydd Clark, Rose Glass Leave a comment

The Batman – Trailer Reaction

January 8, 2022December 27, 2021 by M.C. Myers
The Batman Robert Pattinson

Another trailer for The Batman encouraged me to write down my thoughts, both my anticipation and misgivings, about Matt Reeves’ latest take on the Dark Knight.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Action, Batman, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, Matt Reeves, Robert Pattinson, The Batman, Thriller, Trailer, Warner Bros., Zoe Kravitz Leave a comment

The White Reindeer: A Myth of Innocence

February 24, 2022December 27, 2021 by M.C. Myers
The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer is equal parts history, horror, and fairytale – a myth of innocence, in a landscape of snow and terror.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1950s, Christmas, Fantasy, Horror 1 Comment

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Us That Time Forgot

April 29, 2022December 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Meet Me in St. Louis Judy Garland

Meet Me in St. Louis is hope and happiness in movie form, using sorrow and shadows and more joy than usually fits in ten movies. It is Christmas, to me.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1940s, Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Musical, Romance, Vincente Minnelli Leave a comment

White Christmas: A Beautiful Bottom Line

February 26, 2022December 24, 2021 by M.C. Myers
White Christmas Bing Crosby

White Christmas never fails to put me in the Christmas spirit, with a bit of finagling. It wears the season (and its production woes) on its satin sleeve.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1950s, Bing Crosby, Christmas, Danny Kaye, Michael Curtiz, Musical, Romance, Rosemary Clooney Leave a comment

First Man: Cultural Breakthrough

March 27, 2022December 16, 2021 by M.C. Myers
First Man Ryan Gosling

With First Man, Damien Chazelle takes us to space and still thinks the most important things are the ones we left behind. The best film of 2018.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Biopic, Claire Foy, Damien Chazelle, Kyle Chandler, Ryan Gosling Leave a comment

Brooklyn: Cautious Fairytale

December 23, 2021December 9, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Brooklyn Saoirse Ronan

Brooklyn is a well-meaning new version of the kind of movie we used to make much more easily. It’s not masterful, but at least it’s respectable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Romance, Saoirse Ronan Leave a comment

Vertigo: Decoding Hitchcock’s Desires

December 23, 2021December 9, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Vertigo Kim Novak Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo is as much about its director’s view of sex as a masterclass thriller. It decodes not only Master Hitchcock but an entire cinematic point-of-view.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Romance, Thriller Leave a comment

Superman: Mythic Origins

February 26, 2022December 8, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Superman Christopher Reeve

Superman creates a well-meaning mythology that predicts the most profitable film genre. Its many imitations are only partial, however. The original still soars.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1970s, Christopher Reeve, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Science Fiction, Superman Leave a comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Force Illusion

May 4, 2022December 6, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is as sloppy for its artists as embarrassing for its fans. It is brand mismanagement in visual form.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, Ian McDiarmid, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars 1 Comment

Enemy: The Right Wrong Man

March 22, 2022November 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Enemy Jake Gyllenhaal

An analysis of Villeneuve’s dreamy thriller, Hitchcock accelerated to spiritual attack speed. Arachnophobes beware.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Thriller Leave a comment

Ad Astra: Space Melodrama

April 23, 2022November 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Ad Astra Brad Pitt

Ad Astra attempts to be a space opera and family melodrama. Failing both makes even its best intentions seem misplaced from other films.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Brad Pitt, Donald Sutherland, James Gray, Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga, Science Fiction, Tommy Lee Jones Leave a comment

Midsommar: The Director’s Cut – Empowerment Horror

February 18, 2022November 21, 2021 by M.C. Myers

Ari Aster’s Midsommar shows the dark side of empowerment, which is its main success. That so many consider it a self-help film is its main curiosity.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Horror Leave a comment

Popeye: Robert Altman – De-Animator

December 23, 2021November 21, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Popeye Robin Williams

Robert Altman’s adaptation of Popeye feels more like a redaction. His serious silly world is more interesting as a failure than enjoyable as a living cartoon.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Comic Book Movie, Musical, Robert Altman, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall Leave a comment

1917: Tech Epic

December 23, 2021November 13, 2021 by M.C. Myers
1917

1917 is a capable demonstration of technology matched to an overreaching story. Exactly what meets the eye.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Mendes, War Leave a comment
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