Dog’s Movie House: “Operation Finale” Quietly Effective!
Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog with a look at “Operation Finale!”
Ben Kingsley as Adolph Eichmann in “Operation Finale”
As more an more of the World War II generation are leaving us it will be up to historians and, yes, filmmakers to keep an accounting of that devastating time period so history doesn’t repeat itself. Adolph Eichmann was a true monster in human skin: on of the primary architects of Hitler’s Final Solution and thus responsible for the Holocaust. There have been stories about Eichmann brought to the big screen before, but “Operation Finale” deserves to be seen because it demonstrates quite effectively the banality of evil in a way that audiences may find disappointing if they don’t know what they’re looking for.
Dog’s Movie House: “Geostorm,” “Only The Brave,” Two Different Sides Of The Natural Disaster Coin!
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Extreme Weather In “Geostorm”
Timing is everything when it comes to the movies. Release them at the right time and you have a huge hit on your hands, but suffer the misfortune of real-life events mirroring the subject matter of your film and the audiences will stay away in droves. Witness this week’s two weather-related films: the disaster fantasy “Geostorm” and the true life tale of the Granite Mountain Hotshots “Only The Brave.” The two films vary wildly in quality, but both have the misfortune of being released just after an entire slew of very real, very terrifying natural disasters have struck the country. This means that audiences are going to be understandably disenchanted with the prospect of watching natural disasters reenacted on the big screen for their entertainment. In the case of “Only The Brave” this is a real tragedy. Continue reading
Dog’s Movie House: “Stronger” A Powerful Tale Of Redemption!
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Jake Gyllenhaal In “Stronger”
The bombing of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 has been covered quite extensively in the world of cinema, most recently in the Mark Wahlberg film “Patriot’s Day.” But what we haven’t seen much of is the stories of the survivors of that terrible day and what they went through to rehabilitate themselves in the face of some pretty horrific odds. “Stronger” David Gordon Green’s latest, does just that, focusing on the incredible true story of Jeff Bauman, a young man who lost both legs in the blast and had to fight not only to regain mobility, but to discover who he was as a person. Continue reading
The Dogcast – “The Infiltrator, Ghostbusters” Lead The Way!
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This latest edition of The Dogcast features two of the wide releases for this Friday, July 15 2016. We’ve got Bryon Cranston’s latest “The Infiltrator” a true-life story about one man’s efforts to take down drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, and the new version of “Ghostbusters,” directed by Paul Feig and starring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. Just press the play button below to hear my thoughts on both films, especially the ones regarding “Ghostbusters.” I think you’ll enjoy them. As always, feel free to comment below as The Dogcast is an ever evolving thing. I’m getting better at the editing process and hope to use this format way more often. Thanks again for your patience and don’t forget to listen to me Friday nights on the Pat Walsh Show on KFBK AM 1530! So Sayeth The Kendog! Continue reading
Dog’s Movie House: “13 Hours” Has Michael Bay Directing A Film For Adults For A Change!
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John Krasinski In “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi”
I find Michael Bay to be an interesting filmmaker. He’s technically proficient, but for the most part seem to care next to nothing about the quality of the scripts he uses as the foundation of his films. Most of his output seems to lean toward juvenile fare such as The Transformers and Bad Boys films, but lately Bay seems to be making an attempt to mature as a director. “Pain and Gain” while not perfect, was Bay’s most self-assured movie, despite the grisly subject matter, and now he’s taken another step forward with “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi” a film that avoids the volatile politics of a real life incident in Libya in favor of a soldier’s eye view of the assault on a secret CIA compound in September of 2012. The movie is a mostly successful (if overlong) thriller about the perils of combat in the midst of a culture we as Americans don’t understand. Continue reading
