HAUNTED MANSION, starring LaKeith Stanfield, is definitely not a good follow-up to the Eddie Murphy-led HAUNTED MANSION from the early 2000s, but this edition of HAUNTED MANSION is good in of itself on its own merits, but with flaws. For one, this edition doesn't connect with the appeal of the Eddie Murphy-led edition, and this is all about a family visiting a haunted mansion that stretches back to hundreds of years ago somewhere in New Orleans, but this edition with LaKeith Stanfield, it seems there is a turn in a different direction. This edition is about a young man and his assumed quest to find something that is not visibly apparent without quote-on-quote reading between the lines, and/or overanalyze the story itself while watching. But there is a glimpse, this character is just trying to rediscover something about this mansion and it's best to leave it there. Besides this, the pacing is onpoint, production, standard and definitely meets a threshold for a major theatrical release, and the acting - well, it's standard but does not go as far in the comedic or dramatic realm to justify a reputable nomination, aka for the Oscars, etc. Interesting movie, if a follow-up is released, the writer, its producers, etc, need to go back to the drawing board and really capture the magic of the original in the early 2000s, and leave it there.
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Oppenheimer
(I) (2023)
J.J. LANE Hobbyist - Short Reviews
4 August 2023
OPPENHEIMER, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan, is definitely a treat for history buffs, but this film in particular is about the origins and/or the summarized development of the atomic bomb and therefore everything that shall come after, but really this film explores majorly the psychological turmoil of its subject: Oppenheimer himself, all during an age of McCarthyism and quote-on-quote government-sponsored censorship of not only entertainment, but political dissent. Blacklisting, Defamation of Character, Violation of Civil Liberties. Only Objection: Too Long, 3Hours. Pacing in On-Point for an Educated Audience. Not for the Lowest Common Denominator. Still Accessible - Acting Onpoint - Traditionalist Through and Through. This is What Keeps It Going - Straight Dramatic, Eye Contact - Cunning, Thrilling, and Mysterious At Times and Selectively Downright Philosophical. END OF REVIEW.
Fast Color
(2018)
A Slow-Moving Literary Sci-Fi
11 June 2023
As I was just watching the film FAST COLOR (2019) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw one evening without advertisements, attentively listening and watching the film in full, this film is in fact a slow-moving Literary Sci-Fi piece about a young woman with a very spiritual like superpower that allows her to control in some way space-time which is not clear in anyway in the film nor I imagine the text script overall. The acting performances on the other hand are pretty minimal - subtlety, the writing itself is very character-driven, next to no real plot - but still profound in this young woman's quest for understanding of her world and her family.
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