Category: Film
Money Monster: All Corruption Restores Itself
In the earlier months of 2016, before the dark results of the election were even a thought in people’s minds, Jodie Foster’s fourth feature length [Read More…]
Daisy’s Internal Monologue in How I Live Now As Your Own
While not necessarily a book that screams, “Ripe for adaptation,” Meg Rosoff’s 2004 novel, How I Live Now, was perhaps a foretelling of just how [Read More…]
The Power of Luck: Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky Is A Sort of Match Point Rumination
“You know, I don’t care if he’s great. I just hope that he’s lucky.” As the last line of one of Woody Allen’s best offerings [Read More…]
Despite Elements of Greek Tragedy & Léon: The Professional, Proud Mary Does A Disservice to the Hit Woman Movie
Whenever the story of a hit man makes its way onto the screen, there is automatically a built-in audience. For all of us are fascinated–whether [Read More…]
Courtney Love, An Unlikely But Invaluable Muse to Miloš Forman
As is the case any time an auteur of the movie industry dies, one must take stock of his output. The wealth and breadth of [Read More…]
California Suite: A Multi-Layered Perspective on the Effects of L.A., None of Them Really That Positive
The war of opinions between those who “love” L.A. and those who hate it has been raging arguably since the film industry perhaps wisely decided [Read More…]
Wes Anderson Has Always Been Secretly Appealing to Our Animal Instincts, But Ironically Less So in Isle of Dogs
The only other stop-motion animated film Wes Anderson has ever brought into the world was 2009’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s book of the [Read More…]
Sometimes, You Just Can’t Kill Your Wife: A New Leaf
“We had been married three months and I rather thought it was time to get rid of my wife.” So begins the original story from [Read More…]
Two For The Road Reveals The Infinite Number of Complications in Marriage
Before Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, before Blue Valentine, there was the original gangsta of horror love stories, Two For the Road. Though, in [Read More…]
Why Desperately Seeking Susan’s Eponymous Heroine Could Never Get By in New York Now
Susan, no last name, no inhibition. That was the name of the game in the New York of the 80s, wasn’t it? Getting by on [Read More…]
