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Joyces Choices
Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Look for her arts & entertainment reviews online at JoycesChoices.com
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“Power” was the theme at the movies released this rainy weekend and the
following two films though different in style and content, found their
way through the same terrain. Let’s begin with PROJECT POWER:
PROJECT POWER is the
latest from Jamie Foxx who stars in this sci-fi action thriller about
power– who has it, who wants it, who uses it and how. Here “power” is
literally encapsulated in a pill that gives everyone a different
superpower for five minutes, but one never knows what that power will be
until they take the pill; it could make the user invisible, or it just
might cause a body to explode. Foxx plays Art an ex-soldier who teams up
with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as New Orleans police detective Frank who
takes the drug to even the playing field against criminals, and
Dominique Fishback as Robin a teen drug dealer. The three join forces to
rescue Art’s daughter from the makers of the capsule that Robin peddles
on the street to earn money for her mother who needs an operation. In a
lumpy bit of exposition Robin shares that they have no health
insurance; the movie sprinkles socially conscious, politically
progressive messages among its special effects and action sequences
which pit the three against street thugs and corporate drug lords.
The film moves at breakneck speed as the camera pans and filmmakers grab
wild sound, unguarded conversations, in-the-moment debate, behind the
scenes strategizing, and zero in on the vivid personalities caught up in
the fray. The boys are predominantly from conservative,
military-inflected families, but the filmmakers capture many distinct
personalities and points of view within this evolving milieu. There’s
Reagan Republican Ben, straightforward, savvy, and a double amputee who
knows how this challenge will play to an audience of young men yearning
to identify with someone who hasn’t let a pair of prostheses slow him
down. There’s Steven, a liberal son of Mexican immigrants who eloquently
wears his heart on his sleeve and trusts his convictions enough to
declare himself both pro-second amendment and pro-choice in front of a
conservative audience. There’s Renee, laser-focused and
blazingly-articulate party chair who stands firm in the face of a full
frontal and perhaps racist attempt to impeach him on the first day. And
there’s the gregarious Robert, a rah rah Republican who comes to realize
that people may be one thing outside and another thing “on the
inside”–himself included. “I didn’t think of this,” he says with
endearing candor straight to camera. He gave me real hope for change in
a world permeated by toxic masculinity.
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8/18/2020