Midnight’s Children is both blessed and cursed in its adaptation from Rushdie’s novel.
Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine begins with a young girl alone in a field, calling for her dog. She is alone and unheard. A similar beginning greets the audience in The Place Beyond the Pines. It begins in darkness with deep inhales and exhales and the rhythmic click-shish of a switch blade. The tattooed, shirtless Luke (Ryan Gosling) […]
The first rule of Shin Bet is: You do not talk about Shin Bet. Put another way: Five former chiefs of the secretive Israeli agency reflect on the power they wielded.
When The Big Homie called about something completely unrelated to Harmony Korine’s new film, he reduced Spring Breakers to an infamous line from a Zeppelin song.