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 […]
Some might suggest that a movie like The Usual Suspects is overrated and garners undue praise because its narrative is predicated on a lie, namely one that Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) weaves for the duration of the film. Perhaps the critics of this style are correct inasmuch as the final scene really amounts to a stylized “just […]
As a waiter, I once had a manager approach a table to castigate a young woman for having no palate because she sent back a moderately expensive bottle of wine without allowing it to breathe. While he might have been correct in his view of her assessment, he failed to notice her bald scalp wrapped beneath […]
Rain is a waterfall against the windows of the double doors, and Annie Lennox’s version of “Don’t Let it Bring Your Down” streams softly from surround-sound speakers as iridescent street globes cast soft light through the windows on a blonde body lying on a pillowy sofa while two masculine hands remove her black pants and begin to […]