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Middle East movie time (and place)
This week’s new movie releases take up a troubled region’s troubles, from The Mummy to Radio Dreams
The Mummy: Revivified Egyptian princess or a test-screening attendee? You make the call!
Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan all get turns in the cinematic spotlight this week in a monster movie, the story of a dog and his girl, an expat drama, and a war doc, respectively. Some are better than others.
Movie
Mummy *
An ancient Egyptian princess escapes her tomb and sets about finding a human host for the Egyptian god of death, because a deal’s a deal. To paraphrase Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the monsters in the vastly superior horror hybrid (there, horror-murder mystery; here, horror-action adventure) <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em>: “No, no, no — you were doing fine. You were brisk and straightforward; you had established characters, story, and tone with efficiency and even some wit; and now this ham-handed segue into a superhero-style soap opera. Tut-tut-tut; it won't do.” I was curious enough — even hopeful enough — about Universal’s decision to exhume its classic monsters to hold on until the zombie crusader frogmen started swimming after amoral (but maybe-redeemable) soldier of fortune Tom Cruise. No one would blame you for checking out sooner, however — maybe right around the time Cruise meets this would-be franchise’s version of Marvel’s Nick Fury. That’s when the scary-ish stuff stops, the bloviating begins, the action goes big, and the movie shifts attention from itself to a glorious, sequel-spangled future. Whoops. Alex Kurtzman directs; Annabelle Wallis co-stars.
And of course you can’t think of the Middle East without thinking of Merry Old England, so there’s a couple of Britpics — modern and otherwise.
Sadly, we couldn't make it to this week’s big new horror release — and we don’t mean The Mummy. (But we didn’t miss La Granja.)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Middle East movie time (and place)
This week’s new movie releases take up a troubled region’s troubles, from The Mummy to Radio Dreams
Middle East movie time (and place)
This week’s new movie releases take up a troubled region’s troubles, from The Mummy to Radio Dreams
The Mummy: Revivified Egyptian princess or a test-screening attendee? You make the call!
Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan all get turns in the cinematic spotlight this week in a monster movie, the story of a dog and his girl, an expat drama, and a war doc, respectively. Some are better than others.
Movie
Mummy *
An ancient Egyptian princess escapes her tomb and sets about finding a human host for the Egyptian god of death, because a deal’s a deal. To paraphrase Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the monsters in the vastly superior horror hybrid (there, horror-murder mystery; here, horror-action adventure) <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em>: “No, no, no — you were doing fine. You were brisk and straightforward; you had established characters, story, and tone with efficiency and even some wit; and now this ham-handed segue into a superhero-style soap opera. Tut-tut-tut; it won't do.” I was curious enough — even hopeful enough — about Universal’s decision to exhume its classic monsters to hold on until the zombie crusader frogmen started swimming after amoral (but maybe-redeemable) soldier of fortune Tom Cruise. No one would blame you for checking out sooner, however — maybe right around the time Cruise meets this would-be franchise’s version of Marvel’s Nick Fury. That’s when the scary-ish stuff stops, the bloviating begins, the action goes big, and the movie shifts attention from itself to a glorious, sequel-spangled future. Whoops. Alex Kurtzman directs; Annabelle Wallis co-stars.
And of course you can’t think of the Middle East without thinking of Merry Old England, so there’s a couple of Britpics — modern and otherwise.
Sadly, we couldn't make it to this week’s big new horror release — and we don’t mean The Mummy. (But we didn’t miss La Granja.)
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