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2 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
The latest animated hit to produce a live-action remake, Universal’s new-ish “How to Train Your Dragon” has so much CGI that you may struggle to figure out where the live-action elements are exactly, outside of the Irish location photography, as opposed to the original film’s CG images. Even the people look CG’d. The 2010 DreamWorks Animation hit “How to Train Your Dragon,” based on the books by Cressida Cowell, has already produced two sequels, five short films and merchandise aplenty.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
“The Ritual” was probably doomed to be an inferior knockoff of “The Exorcist” from the start. Like William Peter Blatty’s sensational 1971 novel, “The Exorcist,” which was adapted to the screen by William Friedkin in 1973, “The Ritual” claims to be based on “true events” that allegedly took place in a Roman Catholic rectory in Iowa in 1928.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
Wes Anderson is back with his flat, “panimetric” compositions, broken families and flawed patriarchs. In the case of “The Phoenician Scheme,” it is 1950, and the patriarch is Anatole Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro, an Anderson repeater from “The French Dispatch”). Korda is a global dealmaker (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) with a plan to corner the market in rivets (or something). This will involve persuading other dealmakers to adopt his plan and join him in it, which is not an easy task.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
Neon’s “The Life of Chuck”—winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival—breaks the mold of superhero films, remakes, prequels, sequels and reboots. For starters, it’s about the end of the world for real, much like Adam McKay’s lesser “Don’t Look Up” (2021)—and what that might be like. “Chuck” scares the hell out of you. But it’s also funny and charming.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
From filmmaking brothers Danny and Michael Philippou of Adelaide, Australia, and the 2022 sleeper hit “Talk to Me” comes “Bring Her Back.” This follow-up effort is another genre entry. But, I’m afraid it lacks the catchy, embalmed-hand gimmick and the terrific lead actor Sophie Wilde, the breakout star of the film (“Talk 2 Me” is coming), although “Bring Her Back” has a great cast of its own. Despite such assets, however, this new film never really takes off.
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