KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL is a kid’s film, but one that resonates for adults as well, delving as it does into the harsh economic realities of Kit’s world. Based on one of the entries in the “An American Girl” series designed to teach history to modern kids by telling stories firmly set in times… Read More »
RANGO
RANGO triumphantly trades on the peculiar appeal of the well-executed excursion into the grotesque. Channeling spaghetti westerns, Cervantes, Castaneda, and a dash of CHINATOWN as refracted through the visual sensibilities of Dali, it is a fiendishly clever concretion of high- and low-brow in a story that is both vision quest and farce. The eponymous and… Read More »
NO RESERVATIONS
NO RESERVATIONS is a prime example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood remakes of terrific foreign language films. Take challenging characters, piquant situations, homogenize the high heckola out of them and, poof, everything that was wonderful in the original is gone. To be fair, even without knowing MOSTLY MARTHA, said original, there is little… Read More »