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feminist again i don t think this is a huge revelation worth watching if you are into the subject at all at least until we hear some kind of clarification from alanis respect a biopic about arethra franklin the queen of soul music jennifer hudson plays arethra before she died aretha actually picked hudson to play her forest whitaker plays her father and marlon wayans plays her first husband marc maron plays the famous producer jerry wexler who releases most of her music and mary j blige plays family friend and singer dinah washington the movie takes us from youth until her 1971 amazing grace gospel performance this film follows the same cookie cutter story of every other musician biopic early struggles a troublesome marriage first success a fight with a music label that results in a change of labels a troublesome addiction too much success leading to bad behavior and a denouement that involves a re centering and launch into future success with a heartfelt performance at a special place maybe that s just the story of all successful musicians the movie hits all of these tropes without getting anything deep or original out of any of them its distinguishing factor is her struggle with religion and her deeply religious yet philandering father it was enjoyable while it is technically well done it is not amazing everyone does a fine job even if some parts of her life are left unexplained and unexplored and hudson is a great singer in her own right under the skin scarlett johansson plays one of two aliens she drags women and mostly men off into some kind of death or stasis in order to understand them or transport them to her planet or something she wanders around sometimes naked talking little weird scenes occur in some kind of odd space where her naked victims follow her as she walks on a flat surface while they descend step by step into some kind of black oil in which they float and can still see it must be metaphorical but i didn t see the point looking up on wikipedia from a synopsis of the book on which the movie is based the themes are supposed to be about animal cruelty environmental decay sexism and immigration i didn t get any of that from the film all i got was nice scenery tedium confusion lack of a comprehensible story arc and an unsexy look at scarlett johansson the film took a chance by being different from the usual sort of films we see it fails spectacularly but i give it some credit for that no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels movies review friday november 26 2021 movie reviews dune 2021 eternals the eyes of tammy faye the father king richard pixie spencer dune 2021 as an aside i saw this in a 4x movie theater and i can tell you that 4x movie theaters are not worth the extra cost every once in a while my seat vibrated slightly distracting me from the movie then i felt the seat kicking me in my bottom there are kids who will do that for free in regular movie theaters finally during a huge rain scene on film i felt a slight mist in the theater skip the 4x on the other hand this is a huge well made sci fi film of multiple worlds that deserves to be seen in a theater as for the story and characters the director dennis villeneuve and the rest of the staff do a great job enabling the characters to emerge the story retains its essential form while being accessible to people who have not read or forgot the book at least i think so it s possible that the emperor sending troops to aid the harkonnens fight against the atreides might get lost on someone who never read the book which is important but not critical at least to this movie which is only the first half of the novel the story dune is a planet with an important spice that enables interstellar travel while also turning blue the eyes of anyone who hangs around it for a while the planet is nearly entirely desert with little water and little life however there are some desert mice some huge ass sandworms that detect the slightest movement on the surface and the freemen nomadic and essentially bedouin native warriors who resent the presence of the spice mining operations of the empire the emperor kicks the harkonnens off of the planet for some reason and sends the atreides faction to continue the operations but it looks like they might have been sent to fail the harkonnens sabotaged some of the equipment and they and the emperor later attack the atriedes on dune meanwhile duke atreides wife jessica is a bene gesserit some kind of mystic with mental powers in a long line of trained woman mystics who has a son paul that she has trained in these ways much to the annoyance of the rest of the bene gesserit she did so because she thinks paul may be the fulfillment of a thousand years of prophesy simultaneously paul seems to fulfill some freeman signs of being a prophet too and he is having visions of a freeman woman he will meet and wed and maybe die in her arms timothee chalamet rebecca ferguson oscar isaac josh brolin and others do fine jobs not too mopey not too dreamy not too chaotic effects music and cinematography do what they should it s not the greatest film of this decade but it works and i enjoyed it i am looking forward to part 2 eternals this boring entry into the marvel universe is a collection of marvel scenes apparently written by not exceptional 12 year olds once again we have a bunch of super heroes with undefined powers that can do anything except when the plot wants these powers to not work so well so as to provide some tension didn t work once again immortal and invulnerable non human beings run through every human emotion and die from human fatal wounds like asphyxiation although they don t breathe and chest wounds although they have no circulation or blood once again a marvel movie tries and fails to explain why super powerful beings did nothing while the other movies played out not getting involved in earth events is not an excuse for not stopping thanos now suddenly they seem to care about humans but they did not apparently during the last five millennia once again a marvel movie fails to explain where all the other marvel superheroes are at an event that threatens the entire planet earth some of these other superheroes are gods right and once again a marvel movie glosses over massive destruction that should wipe out a planet instead the destruction affects only a few miles around it the characters are fine but one dimensional the marvel humor runs shallow the plot makes an attempt at least the eternals have to choose between helping keep humans alive on earth or helping a celestial be born which is their actual mission so there is some slight moral dilemma otherwise whatever the eyes of tammy faye i knew very little about televangelists and about prosperity gospel before this movie and only a little about jim and tammy faye baker played beautifully by andrew garfield and jessica chastain based on the documentary of the same name this film must have involved a lot of input from tammy faye who is portrayed quite sympathetically as is televangelism in general the story is how the two met in college where jim was promoting the idea that wealth god s blessing and so they should make money by promoting god various other televangelists and other kinds of ministers have other ideas with this and with each other so while on the whole they are all working to turn people from sin and to christianity they also present different sometimes contradictory methods and messages in different styles the bakers end up collaborating with and butting heads with others for example tammy believes in loving everyone including homosexuals and bringing them closer to god while jerry falwell and others reject this idea the movie covers the financial fraud and theft by jim baker as well as his and others possible homosexual dalliances it skips some of the nastier things that the bakers and other prosperity preachers did such as telling the poorest people to take out bankrupting loans to give them the bakers money as proof of their belief this was supposed to result in being paid back many times over by god but typically resulted in lost fortunes bankruptcy and even death when people ran out of money to pay for cancer treatments etc but that would make it harder for tammy to be a sympathetic screen character this was quite a good movie interesting well acted well scripted and well shot i didn t see the documentary if it is good some might ask the question why this movie needs to exist the father this tour de force from anthony hopkins is a crushing look at a man with alzheimer s it s impossible to describe without giving away the film but the simple explanation is this anthony plays a man who has alzheimer s he does not accept this but he is not always sure of his memory olivia colman plays his long suffering daughter other characters appear or disappear and that s all you need to know both of them as well as the director play the scenes with sensitivity and creativity it is engrossing puzzling and marvelous this is not a feel good movie while it is sometimes depressing it is so well done that it doesn t really matter think oh let s say kramer vs kramer level of pathos but it s not as miserable as some movies like ones about slavery poverty or horrific abuse so you don t want to kill yourself after watching it still that makes it a movie that is not for casual movie night with friends worth watching king richard this is an okay feel good movie that is something of a crime in its conception this is the story of the father of venus and serena williams about his plan from before their birth to raise tennis pros who would rise up out of the ghetto compton compete at international level and make a lot of money will smith produced the movie and also plays richard the father while he does a credible job with the role he remains a slight change in dialect version of will smith so he s fine but not great aunjanue ellis plays his wife and mother of the two stars as well as mother of three previous also successful girls and saniyya sidney and demi singleton play venus and serena everyone acts well the directing is somewhat heavy handed at times but not often and not too much this is an okay sports movie about a man with daughters and his struggles to overcome his surroundings and his own demons he overcomes a few of them but some of his actions and decisions were pretty bad and the movie never takes him to task for them i understand that venus and serena were consultants on the movie so it is based somewhat on reality at least i hear that richard was actually a lot more of a hard ass than he appears in the film as a film it works fine but this movie is still a crime here was the opportunity to tell the story of two fierce beautiful successful amazing young black girls women and instead we get a movie about a man where the two girls women are props in his story why seriously why do we need this story it s not a bad story but it s also not that original or dramatic the venus and serena stories are barely told this would be so much better if it were their story with their father as a prop so it is a little depressing pixie this irish movie is a throwaway mafia road film it s a comedy about various criminals on the run occasionally double crossing each other it has some violence but not enough to make me turn it off while watching it on the airplane the characters though insane were at least sweet enough for me to watch through to the incredibly ridiculous and yet entirely predictable end forgettable and not worth watching but not terrible beautifully shot in ireland and capable acting spencer this movie is directed by pablo larraín the same person who directed jackie a movie that i disliked i thought jackie was directed or possibly written very poorly mostly closeups of natalie portman s face and endless screen time with her looking forlorn and pitiful that s really not entertaining people laud the acting of someone in closeup who is forlorn for 2 hours but it doesn t make for a good movie so i was not looking forward to see what this director would do for lady diana i hoped to be pleasantly surprised i was not pleasantly surprised in fact it was exactly as poorly directed scripted as jackie lots of closeups of a miserable forlorn face people close to diana said that kristen stewart inhabited the role well with all of the correct mannerisms and intonations i thought the acting was affected distracting and overdone too bad since i like to give kristen the benefit of the doubt but am often disappointed the movie is about a weekend that diana spends at a castle with the royal family she struggles with her eating disorder and her difficult husband tries to visit her old family home and runs afoul of royal expectations she leaves early takes the children and separates one presumes from charles back in london the rest of the casting costuming and cinematography is fine the story is not it s just moaning warbling and fretting with the occasional pointed conversation in between i was fine with the conversations but that was only about 1 3 of the movie just watch the crown no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels movies review sunday november 14 2021 another roundup of social issues in tabletop games gloomhaven designers follow in the footsteps of other rpg companies in working to remove racial and colonial assumptions from their upcoming edition of frosthaven workers at paizo follow the footsteps of workers at other rpg companies in raising issues about excessive work hours low pay minority tokenism and other abuses meanwhile some workers at broken token makers of inserts posted and or confirmed stories of abuse and sexual harassment by the founder leading to many manufacturers and gaming associations to stop working with him board games that address issues of race or gender often do so using a single idea unequal starting positions and rewards based on your race or gender the latest to do so are the 50th anniversary edition of blacks whites a monopoly clone from the 1970s and disparity trap a game where i think the results of the cards require you to scan qr codes to find the results the exact rules are not on the site black progress game is a more upbeat roll and move game about the black experience 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels board games gaming rpgs wednesday october 13 2021 movie reviews street gang sesame street documentary toy story 4 the truth the vast of night street gang how we got to sesame street this fantastic documentary outshines the mediocre documentaries i have watched lately children television workshop s sesame street incorporating jim henson s muppets was a game changer for television and a global phenomenon and this film makes you feel it i learned a lot about the people and history of sesame street that i did 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