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THE HANGOVER PART III (Film Review)

May 26, 2013 Author, Feature Film, Hellicious, Malone, Uncategorized One comment
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THE HANGOVER PART III in theaters now!

I’m going to throw this out there right now: I hated “The Hangover Part II”.  HATED it.  I thought it was incredibly lazy filmmaking: just set the first film in Bangkok because that’s a crazier setting than Vegas, then do everything over nearly beat for beat.  It was also too self-aware, as sequels can be.  You know the characters, so there’s less reliance on the quality of a joke.  For example, Alan can eat a piece of poop and we would laugh because it’s Alan… not because it’s funny. Well, I’m probably alone in my feelings for that film because it did extremely well. People wanted more of the same from the Wolfpack.  Well, this Memorial Day weekend, those people will be thrown for a loop as Warner Bros. releases “The Hangover Part III” – a much darker installment than anybody could’ve seen coming. Read more

THE GREAT GASTBY (Film Review)

May 12, 2013 Author, Feature Film, Heavenly, Malone, Uncategorized No comments
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THE GREAT GATSBY in theaters now!

The worst thing in the world for a writer is “the start”; staring at that blank page and wondering how you’ll ever fill it all with words.  Never mind how you’ll fill it all with good words.  So imagine trying to adapt something like “The Great Gatsby”, one of the great American novels, for the big screen.  Sure it’s been done before (Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay in 1974) with so-so results,  but how do you tackle something that big and make it good?  Well, Warner Bros. might have figured it out:  put Baz Luhrmann, the visionary behind the ultra-stylized, hyper-kinetic “Moulin Rouge!” in charge. Read more

Jack The Giant Slayer (Film Review)

March 3, 2013 Author, Feature Film, Heavenly, Malone, Uncategorized No comments
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JACK THE GIANT SLAYER in theaters now from Warner Bros.

Somehow, I missed the trailers for “Jack the Giant Slayer” (or I just wasn’t paying attention) and I certainly wasn’t wowed by the cardboard standees in the theater used to promote the film.  I mean, what IS that thing?  A giant stone Mayan turtle?  Whatever.  Everyone knows that fantasy films of this type nowadays are either ultraviolent retellings with zombies or Shrek -style fractured fairy tales with references to medieval versions of things like the iPad.  Besides, Jack and the Beanstalk  was one of my favorite stories as a child and I refuse to let anyone other than George Lucas rape my childhood.  Well lo and behold Warner Bros was able to wine and dine the 8 year-old in me and director Bryan Singer turned out to be the perfect gentleman.  No, my childhood wasn’t unwillingly fondled… but after the first 10 minutes, I was ready to put out. Read more