Category: Film
I Am Chris Farley Gets You Into The Skin of One of the Greatest Comics of All-Time
“We realize perfectly well that all the characters that we play are really subsets of ourselves. They’re just ourselves in slightly different moods, ourselves carrying [Read More…]
Something Rings False About True Story
With a movie title like True Story, it’s no surprise that, yes, it’s based on a true story–incidentally, a book based on a true story. [Read More…]
Far From The Madding Crowd: A Faithful Adaptation That’s Still All Its Own
In general, movie adaptations–especially ones that have already been done before–rarely offer anything new to enliven or enrich the original literature on which they are [Read More…]
Tom at the (Funny) Farm
Xavier Dolan’s fourth film (and only now at the still tender age of twenty-six), Tom at the Farm, is the sort of narrative that might [Read More…]
The Second Mother: A Many-Layered Title & Film
Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert’s fourth film, The Second Mother, is a multi-layered film not just about the pratfalls of motherhood, but the complications of class division when emotions [Read More…]
The Diary of a Teenage Girl Confirms That Debauchery is the San Francisco Treat
“What’s the point of living if nobody loves you?” asks 15-year-old Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley, best known for her role on the British TV series M.I. [Read More…]
No One Can Play Lucille Ball Except Lucille Ball
The surfeit of biopics in the world of film never ceases. Just when one thinks that producers have exhausted every possible major icon to sully [Read More…]
Identifying With Carrie’s Writing Failure in SATC 2
Although Sex and the City 2 was even worse than the first movie, and served largely as a tourism campaign for Abu Dhabi, there is [Read More…]
The Epicness of the “Color Blind” Scene in Cruel Intentions
There are few movie scenes in late 90s film history with half as much intensity as the one that takes place at the end of [Read More…]
The Lukewarmness of Hot Pursuit
Director Anne Fletcher has long been on a commercial winning streak with movies like Step Up, 27 Dresses and The Proposal. That streak began to [Read More…]
