Maleficent
The only thing of note I took from Maleficent is how to pronounce the name. For those interested, it is “mal-EF-uh-sent”.
The only thing of note I took from Maleficent is how to pronounce the name. For those interested, it is “mal-EF-uh-sent”.
Is eternal life a blessing when you have to repeatedly embrace the collective ignorance of mankind?
This is a tiny movie that reminds everyone that love is often found as a result of happy accidents.
This film does teach a profound lesson. Never smoke pot when preparing a Thanksgiving Dinner. Never!
While this film will soon be forgotten, it has the greatest magical white horse since the one that appeared in Mike Newell’s classic Into the West (1992).
An accurate review of this film could have simply said, “I really didn’t like it, enough said”.
What if the cost of being madly in love forced you to hide in a public closet as if you didn’t exist?
Director Spike Jonze has done some interesting work, but please do not compare this film to either Being John Malkovich (1999) or Adaptation (2002).
Though the film contains some very good performances, my overall reaction was captured long ago by the famous words of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), and I paraphrase, “It coulda been… Continue reading