‘Movie Corner’ Archives
The Batman
Warner Bros. Pictures (2022) ★★★★☆ Movie Corner By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Welcome, again, to the dystopian world of Gotham City where crime is out of control, the mayor is murdered, Batman's nemeses the Penguin (Colin Farrell)and the Riddler (Paul Dano)are loose on the streets, the police officers are overworked and weary. But there's Batman (Robert Pattinson) in the midst of all the chaos, with a surly attitude of his own, bound and determined to solve the murder and see that the misfits are behind bars. Initially, many city officials and high-ranking police officials see Batman as a vigilante, more part of the problem than part of the solution. But wait! There's Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) whois more than glad to work with Batman to find the culprit(s) in the crime waves in Gotham City. (So much of Gotham City is a reflection of the typical American city today.) Director Matt Reeves' version of Batman spends little time with Batman's alter ego Bruce [...]
Movie Corner – Ten best of 2021
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II 1. Summer of Soul (Questlove) 2. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) 3. CODA (Sian Heder) 4. Passing (Rebecca Hall) 5. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) 6. Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) 7. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar) 8. Nine Days (Edson Oda) 9. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts) 10. Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro) Other films of 2021 to see: West Side Story (Steven Spielberg), In the Heights (Jon M. Chu), The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Respect (Liesl Tommy), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter), Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson), Dune (Denis Villeneuve), The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), and Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi). (movie posters are [...]
Movie Corner: They Call Me Mister Tibbs! Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
by Howard McQuitter II They Call Me Mister Tibbs! Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) Sidney Poitier was (and is) a trailblazer for Black thespians in Hollywood and outside who, then and now, are undervalued on screen and elsewhere. (Including the NFL that touts a solid majority of Black players, but stingy about hiring Black head coaches, and to this day no Black owner of any of the 32 teams.) He's a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, born on February 20, 1927. The youngest of nine children to Evelyn Outten and Reginald James Poitier, he grew up in abject poverty and little education. His family moved to the capital Nassau in 1937, after Florida stopped imports of Bahamian tomatoes, the life bread for the family. At the time, he had no knowledge of segregation which he would face at age 15 in Florida where he was sent to live with relatives. Lying about his age, the 16 year old young man joined the Army working as an orderly [...]
