The characters familiar, the story sweet, the ending a distraction.
Head Games takes a look at the contradictions in our love for sports, and the contradictions therein.
An fanciful and luminous film shot in the style of a ballet akin to The Nutcracker or Peter and the Wolf shouldn’t be sabotaged by unnecessary parenthetical snarkiness that riddles its dialogue – but Mirror Mirror does just that. In a way, it’s true to the original Grimm fairy tale in that it tries to distance itself […]
Oct29
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy — Imagine the Number of Disappointed Teenagers who Stumbled onto This Post
It’s hard to imagine that the title didn’t deter people from seeing the film. Just imagine talking to a significant other or a group of friends and suggesting that you should all “check out A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.” Perhaps you could strengthen your chances of being called a deviant if you inform you parents that you […]
Two rival professors in Talmudic studies come to grips with their academic desires as well as the confrontation that looms within their own personal histories.
Burton and Depp are coming closer to eradicating the tent-pole film machine known as Disney, but they’re not there yet.
Even though it ends with a saccharine, fortuitous, foreseeable ending, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an endearing and frightening journey for our cast of British retirees. The cash is accomplished and equates to a super group of out-of-retirement seventies rockers. (Think Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Robert Page on stage together.) Unfortunately, the allure […]
Since the first time I viewed it as an eight year old (around 1989), The Bad News Bears was something of a pedestrian, underdog baseball tale – something that was reinforced by the crass, raunchier 2005 remake substituting Billy Bob Thornton for Walter Matthau as the antihero Morris Buttermaker. However, the original (and, I suppose its successor) […]
Designated by chatter as an exploration of Scientology, The Master defies categorization and offers a beautiful film featuring a war veteran caught in the midst of private turmoils.
Characteristically Pixar, Wall E lures us in with endearing characters, but traps us in a web of irony and self-reflection.