The Glaring Omission of the Michael Jackson Movie
Bubbles doesn’t look proper. The new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, renders the singer’s pet chimp in CGI, and the result’s even creepier than the famous Jeff Koons sculpture it evokes. His eyes bulge like Gollum’s, and he strikes like a deepfake. The “performance” contributes to the already overwhelming strangeness of this film about one of…