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Missing Morals in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

January 20, 2023January 18, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio shimmers with excited physical energy but never coordinates its new story ideas with its old moral responsibilities.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Animated, Based on a Book, Christophe Waltz, Ewan McGregor, Finn Wolfhard, Guillermo Del Toro, Musical, Remake, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton Leave a comment

Cyrano (2021) – Glossing Over a Classic

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Cyrano

Peter Dinklage is a powerful force for good in an otherwise listless adaptation that misinterprets whatever it doesn’t omit entirely.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Based on a Book, Ben Mendelsohn, Haley Bennett, Joe Wright, Musical, Peter Dinklage, Remake, Romance Leave a comment

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

August 14, 2022December 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Meet Me in St. Louis

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

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

Hello, Dolly! – Love, Inverted

April 19, 2022November 5, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Hello Dolly Barbra Streisand

Hello, Dolly! takes Gene Kelly’s penchant for grinning and perverts it with feel-bad romantic philandering. A charming play becomes a genre-killer.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1960s, Barbra Streisand, Based on a Play, Gene Kelly, Musical, Walter Matthau Leave a comment

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