This year’s second attempt at presidential biography falls short because it’s unsure where it’s going.
Ostensibly, everything on the fictional island of New Penzance is out of a Normal Rockwell painting. The colors are clean, the children are adorned with suspenders, crisp hems, and Sunday school shoes, and everything has its place. Such is the life imagined in Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom. This film shares a number of character elements […]
As the trailer for the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary makes its way around the internet and into the laps of Gonzo-followers, the premier looms and conjures previous imaginings of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on the silver screen. Thompson – or more appropriately, his alter-ego Raoul Duke – has been portrayed in two films […]
Billing Get Low as a “True Tall Tale” immediately exposes the contradiction with the premise that it’s been based on the true story of Felix Bush Breazeale, a bachelor in Tennessee, who in 1938 decided to “have a funeral party while he was alive so he could enjoy it.” The precariousness of movies “based on a true story” […]
Especially Clinton, Murray, Gates and Cosby. (via Urban Raccoons and Elephants and Blow-Up Elephants)