Category: Film
Hello, My Name Is Doris a.k.a. Girl With A Master’s Degree
These days, it’s a challenge to sell people on Sally Field. She’s been less and less of a staple ever since playing hard-ass Miranda Hillard in [Read More…]
Follow Huppert and Depardieu to the Valley of Love
You can’t really hate an ex if you once loved him. At least, that’s the conclusion we’re led to by Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) in Guillaume Nicloux’s [Read More…]
Easter Parade: Still the Only Movie Centered Around Easter
Maybe it has to do with the heightened religious nature of Easter, and that it isn’t a holiday where anyone other than those in the [Read More…]
The Knight of Cups Card Reads: “You Don’t Want Love. You Want a Love Experience.”
Among one of the most polarizing directors currently making movies, Terrence Malick has returned to showcase his usual fragmented style with Knight of Cups, an impressionistic [Read More…]
All Work And No Play Make Pee-wee A Dull Boy
With Netflix becoming something of the reboot queen, it’s only natural that, in addition to the likes of Full House and Gilmore Girls, so, too, [Read More…]
Anomalisa: Sounds Like A Black Woman’s Name, Feels Like An Indictment of Sameness
One supposes the ideal setting for any personal hell of loneliness and alienation couldn’t possibly be anywhere else other than a hotel in Cincinnati. Thus, [Read More…]
By The Sea: Like A Macabre Sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Smith
As Angelina Jolie (sometimes Angelina Jolie Pitt) continues on her career shift into the writer-director realm, it’s clear that once you have enough money, taking [Read More…]
The Beauty of “Brooklyn”
To be an immigrant in 50s-era Brooklyn was hardly for the faint of heart. The passage to America alone, followed by the harsh appraisal at [Read More…]
Love Is A Losing Game, But A Winning Show
There’s no denying that Paul Rust is having a moment right now. Seemingly rising out of nowhere from the ranks of the Upright Citizens Brigade [Read More…]
Grandma, An Indication of The 21st Century-Style Matriarch
As time goes on, the conventional perception of the archetypal “granny”–an aging hag with a hunched back, glasses and bad hearing–continues to wane. Paul Weitz’s [Read More…]
