Not much more than yet another assembly line typeproduced, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story appears to be a bit hollow. Most of the time, the most difficult task is determining exactly what the filmmakers meant to achieve, let alone whether it was possible to do so at all. Typically, the last term in quotation marks is […]
Queer: The jazzy experimentalism of the Beat Generation writers has proven to be a complicated task in converting their works to the screen. Walter Salles’ adaptation of On the Road, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl and David Bronenberg’s Naked Lunch attempted the same with varying degrees of success. One of the better films about
Small Things Like These, however, is free of much of the painful vocabulary and associations of Dame Peter Mullan’s scalding The Magdalene Sisters (2008), Joni Mitchell’s Where the Laundray is, which places the name given instead to the infamous workhouse systems managed by the Irish clergy. Despite The Small Things Like These having relatively little
First of all, I should answer the most difficult question which everyone asks in the final review: I hate Ronald Reagan presidency. It’s a bias I must admit to. That said, I do not see the need to understand why people appreciate the film, given that the plot is interesting, the screen version has no
