Bill Goodykoontz
Movie Critic at The Arizona Republic
"Embarrassingly ubiquitous." Arizona Republic and @azcentral media critic for a living - how meta - bring up four kids for fun. Or maybe vice versa.
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6 days ago |
azcentral.com | Bill Goodykoontz
How do you cover the unimaginable? We found out on Thursday, May 8 with the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — an American! — was chosen pope. To most Catholics, even the thought of an American becoming pope is nearly inconceivable. Yet there was Prevost, addressing the throng in St. Peter's Square, after taking the name Pope Leo XIV.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Bill Goodykoontz
“Fight or Flight” is so stupid. And so great. Don’t misunderstand, it’s not a good movie, not by any normal definition. But it is so fun, so unhinged from the first frame till the last, so absolutely sure of what it wants to be, that it is impossible not to watch the whole thing without a smile on your face. Or at least it was for me. It’s willfully dumb, never taking itself too seriously, and Josh Hartnett is the man for the task. And Charithra Chandran is the woman for the job.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Bill Goodykoontz
The NBA’s return to NBC, at least partially, as part of the league’s new media package, is a big deal. Why? Nostalgia, mostly. But you can take nostalgia too far, and NBC is doing just that. The network broadcast NBA games from 1990 through 2002, an era defined by the dominance of the Chicago Bulls, which is to say the dominance of Michael Jordan, both on the court and in popular culture.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Bill Goodykoontz
One of the more underrated aspects of old-time broadcast-network TV shows was consistency. You knew, for the most part, what you were going to get. Don’t get me wrong, consistency doesn’t lend itself to the most creatively daring decisions, and I am not going to be the person to argue that “Law & Order” was a better show than “The Sopranos.” But there is a comfort to consistency, something to be said for it. That’s the place we find “Poker Face” in its second season.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Bill Goodykoontz
Say this for “Clown in a Cornfield” — you know what you’re getting. There is a clown. In a cornfield. He is a sadistic killer, because this is a slasher film. Here’s to truth in advertising. Or at least in titles. It’s a sometimes dumb, sometimes scary, always over-the-top movie, co-written and directed by Eli Craig, who also directed the excellent “Tucker and Dale vs.
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