We sail through October and sail into November with no big news, which is in contrast to one of this Friday’s premieres, which wants to start a new saga and burst box office: ‘Black Adam’.
The protagonist of that film has superpowers, but he has been buried for 50 centuries. When he wakes up, he wipes his shoulder with a light touch, stretches without a problem and starts to thump (which is unfair, and while I make more noise than the couch when I get up). Of course I don’t have the nickname The Rock, as is the case with the main character of ‘Black Adam’, the refractory Dwayne Johnson, who has the expressiveness of a dry waffle but manages to make his enemies last less than a British prime minister.
For this DC Comics adaptation, with its dark heroes, the imperishable Pierce Brosnan also abounds, with enviable silver mane. The bad thing is, it’s not as hooligan or unbiased as “Deadpool,” so it doesn’t have the excuse of ironic insignificance for being so bad. The critics have already agreed to say it’s one of the worst movies of the year, audiences should subscribe to it.
Today’s best proposal is ‘Look how they run’, the unfortunate title of an American production, in which Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan show how good comedians they are. They play a jaded inspector and a willing but somewhat inept assistant who must investigate a murder in a theater.
A tribute to Agatha Christie as the piece is ‘The Mousetrap’, which has been performed in London since 1952 (English stuff). It’s set in the 1950s, with a bunch of distinguished usual suspects meeting all the elements supposed, adding a healthy note of satire. It reminded me of Slender Man’s slick detective movies, but without drinking the Queen Mother’s gin reserves consumed in them. A highly recommended movie that gives you the happiness of a Monday starting at 12 am.
Javier Bardem haters are in luck, because in “Lilo, My Friend the Crocodile” he becomes a Disney character from a Disney movie. It is a compendium of the chimney sweep from ‘Mary Poppins’ (1964) and the carefree Timon and Pumbaa from ‘The Lion King’ (1994). Here he plays the owner of a crocodile who dances, sings, takes a bath with foam and eats caviar, impressing some new neighbors. This adaptation of a children’s book has no more pretensions than entertainment (and that even Bardem’s “haters” admit he had the courage to do it).
Taking advantage of the publication of ‘Revolución’, Arturo Pérez Reverte’s new novel is released, the version of one of his first novels, ‘La piel del tambor’. Here the Catholic Church is mixed (let’s admit how cinematic it is), with secret organizations, economic interests and decadent nobility, and starring a 007 with a cassock and a vow of chastity. I hope for once he gets lucky with an adaptation of his works in this Dan Brown-esque thriller starring Amaia Salamanca and Jumilla’s Roque Baños soundtrack. If you like it, I suggest you save a good 1988 movie, with a similar theme, “Russicum” about the Vatican secret services.
Isaki Lacuesta always seemed to me to be a very interesting director, able to tell untold stories and not fail to do so in a way that attracts the audience. Today I am talking about his latest work, “One year, one night”, in which we can recognize elements of his universe. Spanish-Galician co-production, with a cast from both countries immersing us in the consequences of the Bataclan attacks through how a couple who saved their lives are confronted the day after.
They say that smell is the last of the five senses we lose and the most evocative. Patrick Süskind already knew that when he wrote Perfume’. ‘The Five Devils’ is also about a person, a girl, with a supernatural ability to capture and record smells (for her sake, she never sits on a tram in Istanbul during rush hour). That’s the excuse to tell us the story of a resigning mother who no longer wants to resign.
Off-camera, I’m here to recommend a hilarious little book by the writer and director Nora Ephron, guilty of “When Harry Met Sally” (1989) or “Something to Remember” (1994). “The Neck Doesn’t Deceive” is a hilarious series of ironic articles about when age starts to overwhelm us.
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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