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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Rash, A Modern Moron Review
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
"Speak No Evil," A Modern Moron Movie Review
"Speak No Evil" is difficult to review without having spoilers, but wow, the subject matter is intensity eerie. This flick is not a comedy, yet the writers still summoned laughter, especially when the two men were listening to a mellow pop song in the car. Brilliant writing by director James Watkins, Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. The entire cast portrayed their roles in perfect synch.
One couple is sadistically manipulative and murderous, while the other couple is not. "Speak No Evil" weaves the fabric of harmony into a myriad of too many evils.
The previews, as the movie, did not disappoint, the psychological terrors punched my brain from underneath the skull.
For those seeking instant gratifications to the senses, "Speak No Evil" might disappoint. This movie exposes the darkest recesses of evil's execution. Being forced into a kill or be killed situation is the ultimate buzz kill for any vacation.
The ending and everything in-between weren't predictable, five stars for "Speak No Evil."
Mass murder, kidnapping and grand theft are safe reveals for those still reading and want to see the film.
This movie will be added to my October watch list for the rest of my life.
Mark Izzy Schurr
Monday, September 16, 2024
"Beetle Juice Beetle Juice," A Modern Moron Movie Review
Can the dead and the living coexist? "Beetle Juice Beetle Juice" has its theories on the matter, and be careful who you trust, or you just may end up in an eternity of a monotonous day, or the fury of Hell's flames.
"Beetle Juice Beetle Juice" is certainly the most original mother daughter bonding story I've encountered. Tim Burton, his screen and story writers along with the music of Danny Elfman is solid. Burton's art is an appropriate display for the preschool aged, and sometimes it's a baleful parade of evil deeds shown with silly make-up.
"I'm lightheaded," the headless man said in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"
I forgot the other juvenile jokes, but there are more.
Young love lures Jenna Ortega to the edge of hell's entrance, and her mother (Winona Ryder) has to journey into the afterlife without dying and save her daughter. and that's just a small portion of the story.
Witchcraft certainly came in handy for the wife of Beetle Juice, and Monica Bellucci portrays a sexy dead woman who uses a staple gun to attach both her legs and nearly half her face to join the living.
"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" weaves dreams, deception, imagination, fantasy and fact onto the screen and bravo, three stars easy for "Beetle Juice Beetle Juice."
Mark Izzy Schurr
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
A Modern Moron Movie Review
Just before the movie started, a website is provided for anyone seeking mental health after they have seen the movie. Extremely disturbing rape is depicted, yet those scenes are brief and leaves many of the horrid details to the imagination.
Slater King, aka Channing Tatum is a tech billionaire who owns his own island. Frida, (Naomi Ackie) a nothing in the work force yearns for King's affection and manages to get herself invited to a party on his private island along with her best friend.
Upon arriving on the island, all cell phones are relinquished, and it's clear, "Blink Twice" is not going to be a typical comedy about excessive partying.
"What the fuck we're we thinking?!?!? Jess said. Jess is Frida's best friend and realizes that doing hard drugs for several days, if not weeks with men on an island she's just met wasn't a smart choice.
Sarah, extremely well portrayed by Adia Arjona is another one of the women who joins forces with the other ladies, and the justified slaughter begins.
True love and sheer evil are weirdly weaved in "Blink Twice," three stars easy for this suspense / comedy.
Mark Izzy Schurr
Monday, August 12, 2024
A Modern Moron Movie Review
Lady Raven is a pop icon and her concert is a trap for the Butcher, a notorious serial killer. Like the 1930s movies, "Trap" relied on the dialogue rather than graphic violence or flashy imagery to get its point across, and it worked.
All deaths in this movie are merely spoken upon and the most violent scene in "Trap" is when the killer pushes a much smaller adolescent girl down the cement stairs of a large concert venue. OK, I correct myself, the killer places a bottle of cooking oil in a commercial deep fryer and a girl gets glass blown up in her face.
Lady Ravan is sly in her dealing with the Butcher. This movie was nothing like I expected, a very original story with doses of cinema intensity. Three and a half stars easy for "Trap." Don't leave too soon when the credits start rolling, or you'll miss something.
Mark Izzy Schurr
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Another Modern Moron Book Review
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
A Modern Moron Book Review
The annelation of their childhood, stripped of their language, culture and spiritual believes, because the white man wanted it all.
Jim Thorpe, a full-blooded Indian was born in 1888. The first 25-years of his life, he was dealing with the U.S. Army's mission to hunt down and kill every Indian in their path, including babies, women and children or enslave them into being white.
Driven from their land again and again by broken treaties, subjected to every known spoliation and classified as beavers, buffalo and other wild creatures and compelled to give way to the march of civilization. The distorted cultural lens of whiteness is sagacious exposed in David Maraniss's 2022 book, "Path Lit by Lightning the Life of Jim Thorpe"
In 1904, Jim began attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and for at least one year, Pop Warner ran it. It was a very football orientated school. The official policy at Carlisle was to exterminate the Indian, not in body, but in language, dress, tradition, behavior and soul.
In 1912, Thorpe became the caption of the college Carlisle team and game by game he became the icon for the American Indian, reaching mythical proportions, he was an athletic odyssey.
Thorpe excelled in college and pro football and did very well in Major League Baseball. In 1916, while playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, Thorpe lead the league in stolen bases and banged in 10 homers with a .274 batting average.
In 1912, Thorpe won two gold medals, the last year the Olympic gold was solid gold. He won gold in the Pentathlon and Decathlon. The putrid politics of having his medals taken away and finally restored to him decades after his death is all covered.
The director of "Casablanca" directed the 1950s flick, "Jim Thorpe-All American." Documentary ends, movie making begins, Pop Warner said upon the movie's release.
Having read this book, it's clear, I'm not a man. Hiram Thorpe, Jim's father had 15 children with five different women and Jim recalls his dad killing and skinning two deer's and hoisting one on each shoulder and walking several miles to the house to feed the family. Both Jim and his father were avid hunters and fishers. Thorpe said hunting and fishing was his favorite sport. By the time Jim was 10 years old, he would trek more than five miles alone into the woods to hunt and fish, often being gone from home for days.
Jim Thorpe was an Olympic track champion, all American college and pro football player. He also played in Major League Baseball and the World Famous Indians basketball team. Thorpe was also one the founding presidents of the NFL.
Jim was an absentee father for all seven of his children. His first son, Jim jr. died of sickness when he was just 3-years old, and booze certainly didn't help in Thorpe's private life. In the 1920s while playing college football for the Canton Bulldogs, and Carlisle, Jim had bouts with the three B's. Booze, broads and brawls.
His life was an impressive legacy laden with the ecstasy of victory, the gnawing pain of defeat and the exquisite ecstasy of athletic dominance.
I've simply tinged the tip of the ice burg of this amazing five-star book. You don't have to be a sports buff or have heard of Jim Thorpe to enjoy this book, it's simply and amazing tale of tragedy and triumph.
Mark Izzy Schurr