NEW THIS WEEK
Tyler Perry’s latest go as the titular lady puts her once
again at the center of a Halloween adventure. When young Tiffany leaves for a midnight
Halloween party in the woods, its up to Madea, Aunt Bam, and Hattie to save her
from the same monsterous fate that befell the group of teens from the original Madea
Halloween.
Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne star as
three friends and former soldiers who reunite to burry one of their sons who
just died in battle himself. Instead of the standard Arlington National
Cemetery funeral, the three men take the casket on a bittersweet road trip of
sorts out to the coast to New Hampshire, reminiscing and coming to terms with
their shared memories of the vietnam war along the way.
We Said: ““We were all
something once. Now we’re something else,” says [the character] Sal at one
point during the film. Last Flag Flying embodies these
simple words as it examines the lives irrevocably changed by war.” Rating: 3 out of 5
Inspired by the true story of the creation of Wonder Woman,
this new film focuses on the eponymous Professor and the two women who isnpired
his greateest work, his wife Elizabeth, and their mutual lover Olive, who
together perfect the lie detector test, and bring one of the greatest comic
book characters of all time to life.
We Said: “It feels like Professor
Marston and the Wonder Women is trying to do too much without quite
enough; it is, by the filmmaker’s own admission, creating a narrative for which
little historical data exists. And although the movie does a good job
contextualizing Wonder Woman’s iconography and presenting a different kind of love
story onscreen, it also cuts too many corners in its formulation to feel like
the origin story this story truly deserves.
” Rating: 3.5 out of 5
