On the heels of Stand Up Guys, it’s important to know where Pacino started. We need to be reminded that Jack and Jill was not the apex, but a manifestation of boredom, a break from playing Shylock or Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a (hopefully) momentary nadir in the filmography of a great American Actor. Stand Up Guys might […]
Christopher Walken and Al Pacino are perfectly cast as Doc and Val, respectively. On screen, both actors have embraced their caricaturized selves, distancing our recognition of them as Michael Corleone or Nick from Deer Hunter fame.
A new documentary about Ginger Baker reveals him as a genius and the opposite of a gentleman. Probably not a combo Andre 3000 would aspire to.
Audiard constructs a sonically primal world, in which the characters live out the primary theme: men are beasts and women tame the beast – although, in the end, the film seems to say that the most pleasing specimens have a little of both the beast and the tamer in them
If you’re looking for a fun ride that’s better directed than written and promises to provide its audience with witch-splattering, head-crushing, body-exploding badassery, then Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters is your ticket. It’s as good as you’d expect, but not necessarily as bad as you figure it would be. The acting is palatable and visuals are adequate, […]
Looper has a great premise with some fine performances — but loses its way when in the time-travel paradox.
Despite the fact that she has the IRS breathing down her neck, her recent film The Canyons has been rejected by Sundance, and she’s an all-around pain the ass to work with (according to this in-depth yet rather damaging article in the New York Times), Lindsay Lohan has turned down an offer to join the cast of […]