Dumbo (2019)::rating::3::rating::3::rating::3

[su_dropcap]W[/su_dropcap]ith this live action Dumbo, Tim Burton builds bigger but not bolder, broader but not better. He doubles the runtime of the original, and fills his new version with more plot, more characters, and just...more. But, for all this film's relentless busyness, much of Burton's idiosyncratic, amiably macabre personality has been stripped away. Those looking for…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 30, 20191Comment

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Holmes & Watson (2018)::rating::0

H olmes & Watson isn't so much a movie as a monsoon of limp, slimy jokes that plop to the ground like that storm of toads in Magnolia. The actors fidget and fumble through their lines like anxious hostages reading ransom demands off a cue card. Scenes don't arrive on the screen fully realized, instead they…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 26, 20190Comments

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Cinemavino — Episode 16: Let’s Get Dabney Coleman an Oscar::rating::0

N o, seriously. Dabney Coleman needs an Academy Award. Where would our movie-going lives be without him? Coleman was the go-to guy when an 80s movie needed an asshole authority figure. When it came to playing an oily dude in a cheap suit, pulling drags off a cigarette and firing sexist one-liners, nobody did it better. ("What's…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 24, 20191Comment

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ByTodd WoffordMarch 23, 20190Comments

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Us (2019)::rating::4

U s is one of those movies that will provoke polarized responses from audiences and lots of flowery adjectives from a needlessly verbose individual like me. At once, this movie is audacious, infectiously funny, and relentlessly weird. Writer-director Jordan Peele simultaneously blends unsettling suspense with an off-center wackiness that will frustrate some viewers and enthrall others.…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 22, 20190Comments

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Wonder Park (2019)::rating::2.5

I t was about midway through Wonder Park, and the little boy behind me and three seats over had already had his fill. He let out a bloodcurdling, paint-peeling scream. "I want race cars!!!" His mother shushed him, which only served to set a fire in the boy's threenager heart. He took his 80oz bucket of Mr.…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 20, 20190Comments

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Apollo 11 (2019)::rating::4

O n a sweltering day in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined an audacious plan: Before the decade was over, the United States would put a man on the moon and safely splash him down on Earth. It'd been less than sixty years since the Wright Brothers sent their wobbly flyer for a glorified…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 19, 20190Comments

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Cinemavino, Episode 15 – Field of Screams::rating::0

Now, when it comes to the indulging of alcohol, I ain't no advocate of being reckless. That said, the internet is a wide world of hypotheticals, so we'll deal in that for a second. If a person were a grown-ass adult, they could play a decent drinking game out of our silly little podcast. In…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 17, 20190Comments

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The Kid (2019)::rating::3

"W hen legend becomes fact, print the legend." These words close the classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and they a make fitting valediction for frontier mythology. Men like the Earps, the James Gang, and Billy the Kid have received so much posthumous embellishment that it's almost impossible to distinguish fact from fiction. Where dime…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 16, 20190Comments

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Ed Wood (1994)::rating::5

O f all the film directors who've ever amassed enough work for a coherent filmography, none are more challenging than Ed Wood. His paradoxical aesthetic boggles my ability to hand out star ratings. For example, Plan 9 from Outer Space is rightfully held as one of the absolute worst movies ever unleashed on the public. Yet, its pedestrian…

ByTodd WoffordMarch 14, 20190Comments