Candyman Review — Candyman (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Christiana Clark, Michael Hargrove, Rodney L Jones III, Heidi Grace Engerman, Ireon Roach, Breanna Lind and Tony Todd. Director [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Candyman (2021): Plenty of Scares and Fine Acting in Adequate Reboot...
Continue reading: Film Review: Candyman (2021): Plenty of Scares and Fine Acting in Adequate Reboot...
- 8/27/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Despite its earned cult-classic status, Bernard Rose’s Candyman isn’t without fault. His transposing Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden” from a British neighborhood to Chicago’s Cabrini–Green projects to consider the text’s racial and economic divides was as inspired as casting Tony Todd for the titular, bee-infested boogeyman running on the fuel of a hive mind’s fear. Yet he still centered it all on the shoulders of white savior’s Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen). Rose flirts with the complexity of that choice by having her first act of heroism (being the key witness to putting a copycat monster behind bars) unleash the real monster from hibernation, but ultimately undercuts Candyman’s return as cautionary tale for white supremacy’s unchecked brutality.
The marketing machine can say Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (co-written by producer Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld) is a “spiritual sequel” all it wants,...
The marketing machine can say Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (co-written by producer Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld) is a “spiritual sequel” all it wants,...
- 8/25/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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