Saturday, February 22, 2020
Genius (2016)
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner and his relationship with Thomas Wolfe.
Muddled attempt of recreating a historical literary episode has some good period detail, but most figures are portrayed unsympathetically (especially Jude Law's Thomas Wolfe) and hardly manages to give an impression what the fuss is all about.
Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Destroyer (2018)
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Dark, intense, downward spiral of an undercover cop is skillfully revealed in slow bits and with a twist ending; Nicole Kidman delivers a remarkably terrifying performance as the downtrodden cop.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
OK sequel doesn't have really live up the original, but has good effects, some capable performances and does offer some exciting action.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Today's Cat
A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935.Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer, National Geographic Creative
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets.
Quite original horror tale made with some sense for the genre, gory, with an atmosphere of doom, but not without some humor.
