Movie review: 'Death Wish' packs heat but no sense
Last week I received an email taking issue not with my review of the horror film "Annihilation" but with the publicity still that ran alongside it in print.
Shaken, as many of us were, by news of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the reader wasn't thrilled to be confronted with the image of Natalie Portman and her co-stars wielding military-grade weapons. "Where," he asked, "is the sense of social outrage at the merchandising and embrace of this sick garbage?"
A worthy question if also, in this case, a misdirected one. The gun violence depicted in "Annihilation," committed in self-defense by trained professionals navigating a disaster zone, is
