The opening scene is reminiscent of a backwoods horror scenario, gruesome and filthy, leaving behind a skulk of corpses and an upset stomach. Yet, even at those highly familiar places, director Clay Staub makes a sharp turn. Staub weakens the graphic violence in achieving the bloodshed and shifts the action forward to set a tone […]
It’s no secret that the standards of Woody Allen’s work declined dramatically after exiting his mid-cinematic masterpieces like Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Stardust Memories. For every outstanding Zelig, there was an underwhelming Purple Rose of Cairo plus a Shadow and Fog. Husbands and Wives was followed by Alice and the trend only grew worse with
The film is highly atmospheric and it took me back to the late 1950s. The long gowns well-coiffed ladies, and the trams which are all classically 1950s. Young Michael Berg was portrayed by young David Kross (that lucky boy) and I saw a very different Kate Winslet. I had not seen her films since “Titanic”
The reason for the title “The Artist” beats me. Jean Dujardin is superbly charming and fabulously expressive as the showman, George Valentin, a movie star who turned silent after the advent of talking pictures. He is more of a showman, an entertainer, than anything else. When his producer (John Goodman) tells him that the public
A love story as pure and emotionally delicious as “A Walk to Remember” will always be special no matter the modern era’s sarcasm The plot follows the romance story of two 18-year-olds and is perfectly summarized by the boy telling the girl’s reluctant father Jamie has faith in me. She makes me want to be
From Princess Mononoke to Crash, incredible stories come in all forms. Some are so beautiful and hard-hitting that simply watching them makes me grateful I even had the chance to see them. Some films that represent reality touch your emotions on a level beyond mere entertainment. The best of these is when a film becomes
While waiting to hear back from a publisher for a possible manuscript titled, “Strangers On A Train” Patricia Highsmith wrote a novel in 1949 on the relationship between a timid shopgirl and her much older housewife. This book, “The Price of Salt”, was later published in 1952, under a pseudonym. It is well-known in LGBT
Regular readers will be aware that there’s no way in which I would leave a review of this film with just one word! I have to say, I was feeling a bit pretentious during the first few minutes of the movie, thinking that it might be a bit too artistic for a simple Saturday night
Little Children takes the audience through the suburbs of America filled with violence, desire, and forgiveness in Field’s second film directed by Todd Field. The film is slated to release with Tár, which says has not yet premiered. The story is narrated from the eyes of Sarah (played by Kate Winslet) who is dealing with
When I was watching National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, I became nostalgic for the innocence found in “American Pie” where human semen was somehow baked into a pie. In “NatLampVW”, dog semen is conveniently sprinkled on top of a pastry. Are we simply biding our time until the protagonists of teenage gross-out comedies are implanting semen
