Elizabeth Banks

“Saban’s Power Rangers” Has No Idea What to Be

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The first scene in Saban’s Power Rangers features a joke about manually masturbating a bull; the movie never gets more clever or subtle.  It also probably never gets less weird.  Saban’s Power Rangers is full of clichés, takes forever to get going, and suffers from Transformers Syndrome (the dreaded disease where your million-dollar CGI results … Read more

Biopic “Love & Mercy” Applies Musical Genius of Brian Wilson to Cinematic Storytelling

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There is a moment late in the second act of the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy where everyone is celebrating the success of the Good Vibrations single and lyricist Van Dyke Parks is tasked with describing the next project, which Brian wants to call SMiLE. Parks describes it as a mixture of various artists … Read more