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Week of July 1, 2016
Ugly people write the news that pretty
people deliver. First up…
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The worst part about being a female war
correspondent is that every one naturally assumes you’re just there to report
the weather.
However, the scribe in this dramedy is drab
enough to pass as a reporter.
Gung-ho to get in front of the camera,
copywriter Kim Barker (Tina Fey) accepts a field assignment in Afghanistan.
Paired with a general (Billy Bob Thornton), mentored by a stringer (Margot
Robbie) and wooed by a photojournalist (Martin Freeman), she quickly learns to
navigate close quarter combat.
But when her segments go unaired due to
audience apathy, Kim tries to seduce an official (Alfred Molina) for an
excusive.
Adapted from Baker’s own biography, WTF
takes a lighter look at Operation Enduring Freedom that comes off more flippant
than empathetic, especially the unfortunate casting of white actors in Afghani
roles.
Furthermore, being a female war correspondent
isn’t as dangerous as being a female sports reporter. Yellow Light
Kung Fu Panda 3
China would have a higher panda population
if it weren’t for the country’s one-cub policy.
Fortunately, the lonely bear in this
animated adventure has found he has more kin.
Kung- Fu Master Po (Jack Black)
inadvertently encounters his long-lost father (Bryan Cranston) around the same
time a chi collecting villain (J. K. Simmons) escapes confinement and comes
looking to collect the chosen one’s enchanted essence.
In order to defeat this newfound threat, Po
must return with his father to a veiled panda village where he will learn to
harness his inner energy for the imminent conflict.
While this successful franchise has lost
some luster over the years, this third installment shows little signs of
fatigue, with the laughs, the animation and the fight sequences standing up to
close scrutiny.
Incidentally, the only real thing that a
panda bear needs to be afraid of is life in a Western zoo enclosure. Green Light
***Her Man Friday***
Brenda Starr
Female journalists in the 1940s we only
allowed to cover soft news, like, who designed J. Edgar Hoover’s ball gown?
Except for the spunky stringer in this
action movie, that is.
An artist inserts himself into his own
comic strip when his ace reporter character Brenda Starr (Brooke Shields)
threatens to leave the series.
Through an avatar (Timothy Dalton) the
artist is allowed to enter the Amazonian rainforest alongside the intrepid
newshawk as she searches for a scientist with a secret formula being sought by
an enemy spy (Jeffrey Tambor) and Brenda’s long-time adversary Libby Lipscomb
(Diana Scarwid).
Despite being a forerunner of the
early-1990s comic-strip movie craze, this 1989 adaptation of the long-running
daily is often overlooked. But rest assured, it’s as poorly acted, horribly
scripted and as campy as all the others of the short-lived sub-genre.
Unfortunately, nowadays, Brenda’s jungle
adventure would be reduced to a travel blog.
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