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Week of October 20, 2017
Halloween is how crazy people see the world
year-round. First up…
Spider-Man: Homecoming
If excreting sticky fluid from your body
makes you Spider-Man than every teenage male is a web-slinger.
Luckily, the enhanced adolescent in this
action-fantasy has other amazing attributes.
Under the mentorship of Tony Stark (Robert
Downey Jr.) since his Avengers stint, upstart superhero Peter Parker (Tom
Holland) now has the costume and technology to really make his alter ego
Spider-Man stick.
Unfortunately, while the new gadgets aid in
his battle against a winged arms dealer (Michael Keaton), his flashy threads
cannot help him navigate the pitfalls of high school. In fact, they complicate
it more.
A heartfelt and funny take on the tiresome
web-head, Marvel’s first cinematic crack at their own mascot not only breathes
new life into the wise-cracking wall-crawling but also raises the bar with
superior performances, a cohesive script and spectacular CGI.
Incidentally, any adult super-villain who
hits the underage Spider-Man can be arrested for child abuse. Green Light
Girls Trip
When it’s only women travelling it’s
important to book a second airplane for their luggage.
Mind you, the females in this comedy
promised to keep it to a carry-on.
Lifestyle expert Ryan (Regina Hall) invites
her estranged friends – party girl Dina (Tiffany Haddish), single mom Lisa
(Jada Pinkett Smith) and celebrity blogger Sasha (Queen Latifah) – to join her
in New Orleans where she is speaking at the Essence Music Festival.
But the Big Easy gets complicated when
Ryan’s husband (Mike Colter) is caught cheating and Sasha needs to report it or
lose her job. Meanwhile Lisa struggles with sex after divorce.
A raunchy road trip that revels in penis
jokes, this African-American contribution to the female gross-out genre is
genuinely funny. While it doesn’t stray from the formula, the juvenile antics
undertaken are accentuated by great performances.
Furthermore, it shows women that no matter
your race: men are still pigs. Green
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Landline
Cheating on your spouse in the 1990s was
more acceptable because the President was doing it.
However, according to this comedy it didn’t
make it any less upsetting on the children.
While twenty-something-year-old Dana (Jenny
Slate) is cheating on her fiancé (Jay Duplass) with her ex (Finn Wittrock), she
learns from her teenage sister Ali (Abby Quinn) that their father (John
Turturro) has been having an affair on their mother (Edie Falco).
This bombshell not only helps to reconnect
the estranged siblings, but also forces Dana to confront her own infidelity and
for Ali to face her growing drug addiction.
While it’s enjoyable to relive the
nineties, there is little else to enjoy about this run-of-the-mill period
piece. With a derivative narrative about a New York affair, flat punch lines
and unlikeable leads, Landline is best left disconnected.
Besides, who needed to cheat in the 1990s
when landlines offered 3-way? Red Light
***Fly Paperboy***
The Fly II
The worst insect you genes can be spliced
with would be one that loves feces.
And while the adolescent in this horror
movie isn’t part dung beetle, he is half housefly.
Raised in a government laboratory ever
since he first emerged from a larval pouch five years ago, Martin (Eric Stoltz)
now appears to be a full-grown adult. On his 5thbirthday, he learns his
inventor father (Jeff Goldblum) died after a teleportation experiment fused his
DNA with that of a fly’s.
As Martin repairs his old man’s telepods he
too begins to mutate into an acid-spewing insect.
A direct sequel to David Cronenberg’s 1986
reimagining of the 1958 original, this 1989 follow-up does not retain its
visionary director but it does manage to amplify the gore. In fact, this
underrated addition has a number of unforgettable death scenes.
Incidentally, human-fly hybrids never get
invented to parties where there's uncovered food.
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