Category: Culture watch
The Suicide Squad: Caught Between Heroic and Psychotic
by Ted Giese In what can be considered a true sequel to David Ayer’s 2006 film Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad clearly benefited from less studio interference. Hamstrung and muddled, Ayer’s film never quite achieved what the director desired to put on…
The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted
by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and revered anonymous work. While it diverges at some points from the general narrative of the…
Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella
by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in with a pair of pick-pocketing Dickensian grifters, Jasper and Horace, and eventually pursues her lifelong…
In Review: Mulan
by Ted Giese Slated for theatrical release in 2020, the 2020 live-action reimagining of Mulan by director Niki Caro was released instead on Disney+ in September, available to subscribers at an additional cost of $30. In December 2020, the film became free to all…
In Review: Tenet
by Ted Giese Tenet’s lead character, the Protagonist, is a soldier with clandestine special training who is recruited into a temporal cold war to stop the future destruction of time and the material world. In this mysterious palindrome of a film he receives a code…
Greyhound: Heavy Action, Light Characters, and the Lutheran Connection
by Ted Giese Greyhound, Tom Hanks’ adaptation of the 1955 C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, was set to sail into theatres June 12,, 2020, and then pushed back to June 21. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was finally launched into the seas of…
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