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THE MIDNIGHT SKY

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE MIDNIGHT SKY

It feels right to have a film about the end of the world be a cold thing, literally and figuratively. And so it is with THE MIDNIGHT SKY, a story set three decades or so in the future is an uncertain blend of personal regret with planetary destruction. Set both in the arctic and in… Read More »

Tagged With: Arctic, end of the world, hologram, interplanetary travel, Jupiter's moon, meteor shower, selective mutism, space colonization

MONEY MONSTER

May 12, 2016 By 1 Comment

MONEY MONSTER

A film that finds a logical reason for the police to shoot a show host on live television, and makes the reason for shooting said host to be for the host’s own good, is a film that is not entirely devoid of interest. MONEY MONSTER is such a film, and this is a good thing, because… Read More »

Tagged With: bomb vest, capital investment, hostage situation, live television, rigged economy

HAIL, CAESAR!

February 5, 2016 By 1 Comment

HAIL, CAESAR!

If Douglas Sirk had directed a film noir written by Billy Wilder, it might have looked something like HAIL, CAESAR!, the latest thoughtful tangle of philosophy and whimsy from the Coen Brothers. Taking place in a 1951 Hollywood not entirely unlike the one that actually existed, it mixes Cold War paranoia, carefully managed studio PR… Read More »

Tagged With: aquatic ballet, biblical epic, choreography, film business, Hollywood, kidnapping, studio fixer, studio system

BURN AFTER READING

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It is a suitably perverse twist that the only person who has the clearest idea of what’s she is doing in the Coen Brothers latest offering, BURN AFTER READING, is Linda Litzke, the inadvertent femme fatale of the piece played by the miraculous Frances McDormand. Not the CIA operatives, not the Treasury Department guy, not… Read More »

MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Two men, each determined to cross the border from Kuwait into Iraq for reasons they find compelling to themselves, wait with some impatience to get going. One is a man whose consciousness has been expanded beyond the quotidienne, and the other, a man whose consciousness has been contracted to the confines of his own psyche… Read More »

UP IN THE AIR

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

Click here to listen to the interview with director Jason Reitman (16:55)In UP IN THE AIR, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has it all figured out. A business traveler with only 42 days at what he euphemistically calls “home” in Omaha, his is an uncomplicated life without the messiness that genuine human interaction entails. He glides… Read More »

UP IN THE AIR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview with director Jason Reitman (16:55)In UP IN THE AIR, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has it all figured out. A business traveler with only 42 days at what he euphemistically calls “home” in Omaha, his is an uncomplicated life without the messiness that genuine human interaction entails. He glides… Read More »

FANTASTIC MR. FOX

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

For years, Wes Anderson has created separate cinematic universes, different but oddly familiar, in which to tell his offbeat tales of family dynamics. In FANTASTIC MR. FOX, he has taken the next logical step and created an actual alternate reality. Using stop-motion animation, and a tale of excesses unbound by Roald Dahl, he has concocted… Read More »

THE AMERICAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

George Clooney’s charisma and powerful screen presence have never been more integral to a film, nor used in a more futile effort, than in THE AMERICAN, a virtually silent opus that trades on Clooney’s unassailable ability to seduce the camera. Based on Martin Booth’s novel, “A Very Private Gentleman”, it is less a action thriller… Read More »

THE IDES OF MARCH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE IDES OF MARCH is a suitably Machiavellian portrait of how politics works. Not in the bastardized sense of ruthlessness for ruthlessness’ sake, but rather in the classical Machiavellian sense, ruthlessness to manage any given situation in order to achieve one’s goals while making as little fuss with the population at large as possible. In… Read More »

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