Category archives for ★½

“Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023): Scorsese’s Demographic Destiny (Review)

★½ Martin Scorsese has traded his Catholic guilt for leftist guilt, but even before his lapse he never resorted to propaganda. His new Killers of the Flower Moon combines There Will Be Blood (2007) with Gaslight (1944), but before you get to thinking that I just praised the film, take a seat.  Then stay seated […]

“Barbie” (2023): The Matrixarchy (Review)

★½ Have you ever wanted to watch The LEGO Movie, except less interesting, less exciting, less funny, and less fun?  How about a dull movie that pretends to be the same kind of exploitative toy commercial that satirizes modernism and conformity, and cannibalizes LEGO in everything from the use of Will Ferrell to the insurgent […]

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (2022): The Less Than Great Reset (Review)

★½ Ryan Coogler should never have agreed to return for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  It is beneath his great talents, a waste of time, and a dishonor to Chadwick Boseman. In the years since Avengers: Endgame played with the space-time continuum to undo the erasure of half the universe by taking away anything and everything […]