WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, based on the novel of the same name by Sara Gruen, is a grand romantic daydream of a movie. Suffused as it is with a bitter edge of melancholy of lost souls scrabbling for a happiness that they believe to be right around the corner, it is saved from the excesses of… Read More »
THE ART OF GETTING BY
At one point in THE ART OF GETTING BY, its disaffected protagonist declares that he is allergic to hormones. Ironically, so is the film that tells his story, and thats a shame because the seething turmoil of emotions at work need more than the anemic frame given them here. George (Freddie Highmore) is a self-described… Read More »
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
As evidenced by the continuing popularity from the histories of Suetonius on down to the modern tabloid, bad behavior among the rich, famous, and/or powerful is a source of endless fascination for the rest of us. That being the case, there is a built-in magnet for THE DEVILS DOUBLE, based on the life of Iraqi… Read More »
BELLFLOWER
In the French language there is a particularly evocative suffix, -atre. There is no equivalent in English, but applied to a color, yellow, for instance, it bespeaks the sickly quality of that color. And it is that sickly yellow that permeates BELLFLOWER, a crushingly dull look at the lives of crushingly dull people, two of… Read More »
CIRCUMSTANCE
CIRCUMSTANCE begins in a perfect world before being brought back to the reality with a thud. The perfect world involves the freedom of living an authentic life. The real world, modern day Iran, is a place where lies are the common currency of life, and to behave otherwise is to risk everything, even ones life.… Read More »
FEMME FATALE
There was a time when Brian De Palma was hailed as the worthy successor to Alfred Hitchcock. With DRESSED TO KILL, he seemed to have slipped a bit, from successor to Hitchcock into the role of paying tribute to him with a dead-on homage style of filmmaking. And then with BLOW OUT, well, he just sort of… Read More »
MIGHTY MACS, THE
It took two years for THE MIGHTY MACS to finally make it to theater screens. It also took a title change from OUR LADY OF VICTORY. Granted, a G-rated film is a tough sell in the current marketplace, but this wholesome fare, based on a true story, is not as dull as its familiar idioms… Read More »
INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN
There are so many ways to go with the whole Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. Check out any conspiracy website and youll find everything from aliens to the hoax scenario, as in JFK didnt really die and for all we know, hes still living in a more or less vegetative state on that private island Onassis… Read More »
FLOWERS OF WAR
FLOWERS OF WAR is the most expensive Chinese film to date, and unlike the Hollywood counterpart, this is not a film that relies on special effects to justify its existence. Rather, director Zhang Yimou has done here what he has always done best, tell a compelling and very human story with a rare and specific… Read More »
DANGEROUS METHOD, A
A DANGEROUS METHOD is an exquisitely pointless film. It also features Keira Knightlys most off-putting performance to date, one that may go down as one of the most off-putting of all time, in any film, by any actor. The complicated relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) should be the perfect… Read More »
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