“We’re not in Wonderland anymore Alice” – Charles Manson “My whole life has been decided by fate” – Sharon Tate The ninth film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It draws inspiration from people and events that transpired between February and August of 1969. But it is fiction and that…
“Once you know the extent of your power, then you can learn to control it” – James McAvoy as “Charles Xavier” in X-Men: Apocalypse Is this really the end for the X-Men? This is the seventh and supposedly last film featuring the main X-Men characters, although we know that New Mutants is due out next…
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children – Samuel L. Jackson as “Jules Vincent” in Pulp Fiction Ramaa Mosley talks to TailSlateabout her latest film, ‘Lost Child’ Welcome to…
“First of all, I would like to make one thing clear: I never explain anything” – Julie Andrews as “Mary Poppins” in the 1964 movie More than 50 years has gone by since the release of the original Mary Poppins, which earned five Academy Awards including a Best Actress win for Julie Andrews. It is…
“Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms” – Nicolaus Copernicus “The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol” – Enric Sala We’ve seen Jason Momoa as “Aquaman” already in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. But now he is the main character in a…
“Tragedy is a test of courage. If you can meet it bravely, it will leave you bigger than it found you. If not than you will have to live all you life as a coward, because no matter where you may run you can never run away from yourself” – May Robson as “Grandmother Lettie…
“If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge” – Muhammad Ali Rocky IV was released in 1985. Then and now, trying to count the number of reviews that used “jingoistic” or jingoism” in describing the film would be an…
It was the film’s opening weekend. The auditorium was sold out. The movie playing was the adaptation of a best-selling novel. All of the principal cast was Asian. I remember it well, even though the 25th anniversary of that weekend arrives in September of this year. That film was The Joy Luck Club.
It has taken that long for Hollywood to make another major motion picture with an all-Asian cast. Crazy Rich Asians proves that there was no good reason to wait that long to make such a film.
“Dis joint is based on some f***ed up fo’ real shit” – opening credits of BlackKkKlansman “Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests – David Duke in a…
“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass” – Benjamin Franklin “For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn” – Jane Austen The titular tree in this film resides in the backyard of “Baldvin” (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and “Inga” (Edda Björgvinsdóttir). …