Sleight (2016)

Sleight (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 6, 2017Street Magician
We've had films about stage magicians in the last few years from The Prestige to Now You See Me; this has the novelty of focusing on a young street magician against the backdrop of L.A.'s drug culture. The film takes a very strange leap off the deep end into SF territory in the last quarter

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Rating:
Sep 23, 2018Young Adult/Magical Journey Across the Universe
High-profile adaptation of the classic children’s work by Madeline L’Engle that has been entirely wrenched out of shape by its director to become a heavy-handed message about diversity. It is SF made by people who think the genre is just eye candy and absurdly over-the-top costumes