Thursday, June 27, 2019

Shaft (2019)



Tim Story's tribute to toxic masculinity, Shaft, gives filmgoers Samuel L. Jackson swaggering through frustratingly predictable gangland set pieces that portray him as invincible and his estranged FBI data analyst son (Jessie T. Usher) as an undersexed geek. Happy Father's Day.

The Sound of Music

  One of the songs that didn't make it into the film version of The Sound of Music (1965) is a trio in which the Baroness Schraeder, the...