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Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women: The birth of a goddess.
Suffering Sappho! There certainly are a lot of new movie releases this week! (Yes, that’s Wonder Woman’s catchphrase, chosen in honor of the Wonder Woman origin story biopic Professor Marston & the Wonder Women.)
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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women **
Suffering Sappho, it's a real-life superhero origin story! In her wildly successful star-turn on the big screen this summer, Wonder Woman was presented as Zeus' parting gift to humanity, a secret weapon in its struggle against the dark promptings of Ares, God of War. But her actual creator was psychologist William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), who fashioned her to embody his ideas about human relations (erotic and otherwise, but definitely erotic), starting with the notion that people are happiest when they submit to a loving authority. (Happiness is his great goal, and if normality gets in the way, well then, it's time to change the meaning of normal. And the best way to do that, of course, is to win over the next generation.) Still, there's a reason that Marston and his wonder women — wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive — get the title here. The comic-book heroine is presented as the fruit of their story and personas; what's onscreen is mostly what comes before: root, leaf, bud, flower. And for a film so frankly concerned with BDS(but not really M), it's fairly restrained, perhaps because the point is not sex, but love. Yes, it's glib in places ("Love <em>is</em> pain," coos a Greenwich Village fetish merchant), and broad in others. Yes, it's sometimes dumb in its presentation of the outraged opposition. But writer-director Angela Robinson is interested in both her subjects and their ideas, and that counts for something.
And speaking of biopics, there were simply too many to be reviewed: Watergate’s Deep Throat, a legendary Latina songstress, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall all slipped past us (though Scott may get that last one by this time tomorrow). We did, however, catch the Van Gogh postmortem Loving Vincent and the dancer doc Bobbi Jene.
And speaking of documentaries, Trophy’s investigation of big-game hunting is just really good movie-making, if a bit hard to watch.
Also reviewed: Jackie Chan’s revenge thriller The Foreigner; a giallo version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat, and a drama about who gets Daddy’s dough when he’s gone.
Also unreviewed: Happy Death Day.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women: The birth of a goddess.
Suffering Sappho! There certainly are a lot of new movie releases this week! (Yes, that’s Wonder Woman’s catchphrase, chosen in honor of the Wonder Woman origin story biopic Professor Marston & the Wonder Women.)
Movie
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women **
Suffering Sappho, it's a real-life superhero origin story! In her wildly successful star-turn on the big screen this summer, Wonder Woman was presented as Zeus' parting gift to humanity, a secret weapon in its struggle against the dark promptings of Ares, God of War. But her actual creator was psychologist William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), who fashioned her to embody his ideas about human relations (erotic and otherwise, but definitely erotic), starting with the notion that people are happiest when they submit to a loving authority. (Happiness is his great goal, and if normality gets in the way, well then, it's time to change the meaning of normal. And the best way to do that, of course, is to win over the next generation.) Still, there's a reason that Marston and his wonder women — wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive — get the title here. The comic-book heroine is presented as the fruit of their story and personas; what's onscreen is mostly what comes before: root, leaf, bud, flower. And for a film so frankly concerned with BDS(but not really M), it's fairly restrained, perhaps because the point is not sex, but love. Yes, it's glib in places ("Love <em>is</em> pain," coos a Greenwich Village fetish merchant), and broad in others. Yes, it's sometimes dumb in its presentation of the outraged opposition. But writer-director Angela Robinson is interested in both her subjects and their ideas, and that counts for something.
And speaking of biopics, there were simply too many to be reviewed: Watergate’s Deep Throat, a legendary Latina songstress, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall all slipped past us (though Scott may get that last one by this time tomorrow). We did, however, catch the Van Gogh postmortem Loving Vincent and the dancer doc Bobbi Jene.
And speaking of documentaries, Trophy’s investigation of big-game hunting is just really good movie-making, if a bit hard to watch.
Also reviewed: Jackie Chan’s revenge thriller The Foreigner; a giallo version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat, and a drama about who gets Daddy’s dough when he’s gone.
Also unreviewed: Happy Death Day.
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