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Glauber Rocha, Ismail Xavier, Stepanie Dennison and Charlotte Smith
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Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White...
The British Knight
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When I’m offered the chance to leave New York to live in London for three months, I can’t pack...
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Strings of Pearls: A Collection of Poems
Janie Hextall and Barbara McNaught
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While having fun with Washing Lines: A collection of poems, Barbara and Janie discovered they have...
A Passage to India
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A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the...
Batwoman Vol. 1: The Many Arms of Death (Rebirth)
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Fresh from her adventures in DETECTIVE COMICS, Katherine Kane returns with her own DC Rebirth...
The Intuitionist
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Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first...
The Grace Year
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No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. Girls are told they have the power to lure...
BankofMarquis (1832 KP) rated Aquaman (2018) in Movies
Jan 10, 2019
AQUAMAN is not a very good film and I could really only come up with 1 good point - Jason Momoa as Aquaman. Some are calling him "the next Rock" and he certainly has the physique, the screen presence and the charm to pull this off. This movie ALMOST worked because of Momoa's presence on the screen.
Almost.
Director James Wan (Furious 7, The Conjuring) certainly had the "chops" to Direct a film like this, unfortunately, I found his Direction to be choppy. What I mean by that is that this film never really settled into a good flow. It cut back and forth - both in content and in tone - to such an extent that I, the movie-goer, could never settle back into my seat and enjoy the ride. I'm sure Mr. Wan would call this movie a "roller-coaster ride", but if it is, it is an old, wooden, rickety roller coaster, jarring the riders as they go.
As for the cast, they are "fine". From Patrick Wilson to Amber Heard to Willem DaFoe to Dolph Lundgren(!) to good ol' Nicole Kidman. They all do decent, professional jobs with what they are given, but what they are given is weak and disjointed.
I would like to point out Yahya Abdul-Mateen as the sub-villain of this piece, Black Manta. This is the most incompetent Super-Villain in any Super Hero movie to date. His Black Manta was there, obviously, to give Aquaman someone to beat. And he beats him...again...and again...and again.
All I wanted to do was "beat feet" out of the theater.
Letter Grade: C+ (for Momoa's efforts)
5 stars (out of 10) and you can take that to the Bank(ofMarquis)
The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories
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From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday...
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