NINE, the film adaptation of the musical adaptation of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 is an interesting film for many reasons. The most striking is the one that sinks the venture, and that would be discovering that Daniel Day Lewis, an actor of considerable power, has his limits. Astounding with only his left foot to work… Read More »
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN — ON STRANGER TIDES
Sometimes an actor finds a role that becomes his second self, so precisely does he embody it, and so identified does he become with it. William Powell had Nick Charles in THE THIN MAN series. Basil Rathbone became Sherlock Holmes to a couple of generations. Johnny Depp has Captain Jack Sparrow. Unlike Powell or Rathbone,… Read More »
GOTHIKA
You have to wonder if the makers of GOTHIKA started out to make a comedy and then realized that something had gone awry. This would explain a great many things and I don’t just mean the unintentional laughter that this would-be supernatural thriller evokes. Our heroine is Miranda Grey (Halle Berry), a brilliant psychiatrist with… Read More »