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MARY POPPINS RETURNS

December 18, 2018 By Leave a Comment

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

It’s a testament to just how good MARY POPPINS RETURNS is that the weakest part of this sequel to the 1964 film is the sequence with Meryl Streep.  I hasten to point out the relative nature of the word “weakest”. Like everything else in this practically perfect cinematic exercise, it’s eye-popping and clever as the… Read More »

Tagged With: bubbling dolphins, lamplighters, London, sequel

THE HOMESMAN

November 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones is a dour man, at least on screen. His carefully cultivated persona is a laconic one of few words and little patience. It is a character that he plays to perfection, and in THE HOMESMAN,he imbues it with a wonderful, understated quirkiness that makes his star quality all the more charismatic. As… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, film, Hilary Swank, madness, movie, Nebraska, prairie, Tommy Lee Jones, western

MAMA MIA!

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ABBA, the songsters behind the soundtrack for the musical MAMA MIA!, play and now film, composed bouncy little ditties often revolving around a catch phrase or even just a catch word. Add safe, bubble-gum music and the results were songs that weren’t so much great art as something that would burrow into the listener’s brain… Read More »

JULIE & JULIA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JULIE & JULIA

If Julia Child had not chosen the right moment to powder her nose at an embassy party in Paris, she might never have met Simone Beck, and there might never have been the classic cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. If Julie Powell, at the end of a particularly trying day as a government… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, blogging, book to screen, cooking, Julia Child, Julie Powell, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, New York City, Nora Ephron, Paris, Queens

IT’S COMPLICATED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Working from a slight script that rarely surprises, the superb cast of IT’S COMPLICATED make an otherwise mediocre cinematic exercise into something that, if not profound, at least entertaining, at times, even moving. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are Jane and Jake, a happily divorced Santa Barbara couple who have spent the last 10 years… Read More »

ADAPTATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ADAPTATION is the story of one man’’s epic quest to adapt the unadaptable. In this case, turning THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean, into a feature film. The problem is that the non-fiction book is a rambling account of a rogue orchid hunter with the history of orchid mania and a glimpse of contemporary Seminole… Read More »

Tagged With: orchids screenwriting twins

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE may be the summer’s biggest surprise. It’s a remake that actually compares favorably to the original. Sure, anyone who’s seen the previous incarnation will know a few of the bigger plot twists going in, but writers Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris have seeded this version with enough surprises to keep things fresh.… Read More »

PRIME

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PRIME

It is a testament to Meryl Streep’s stellar acting skills that she had kept her role in PRIME from devolving into a shrill caricature of a Jewish mother. And this is especially important given that hers is the only fully realized character to be found in this otherwise dreary excuse for a romantic comedy. The… Read More »

Tagged With: economic parity, Jewish mother, May-December romance, mother-son, therapist, trust issues

ANT BULLY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s very hard not to read current events into the story of the animated kid’s film, ANT BULLY, but that has as much to do with its dissection of human psychology as it does with this animated film’s prescience. Based on the book by John Nickle, it takes a look at the bullying pecking order… Read More »

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