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WANDER DARKLY

December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WANDER DARKLY

WANDER DARKLY is the antidote to the generic rom-com. Set in the subjective viewpoint of a woman who is convinced that she is dead, it explores a relationship gone wrong using the unencumbered honesty of retrospection. The woman is Adrienne (Sienna Miller), who is always quick to point out that the father of her infant,… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, car crash, grief, illusion, reality, Trauma

THE LOST CITY OF Z

April 13, 2017 By 2 Comments

THE LOST CITY OF Z

THE LOST CITY OF Z opens in the darkness of the jungle. Natives stand in silhouette outlined against fires burning in warning or in welcome. It’s a fitting start to James Gray’s suitably literate adaptation of David Grann’s book of the same name, telling the true story of the obsessions that drove British Major Percy… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazonia, based on a true story, Bolivia, book to screen, indians, jungle, lost, lost civilization, military, natives, rubber plantation

LIVE BY NIGHT

January 13, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LIVE BY NIGHT

LIVE BY NIGHT is so sumptuously photographed that it can almost make up for its shortcomings.  Based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, it has weathered its translation by becoming a slight story heinously overblown. It also suffers from too many false endings.  So many, in fact, that I can’t vouch… Read More »

Tagged With: bootleggers, Boston, Cuba, Florida, gang warfare, gangsters, mob, molasses, Roaring Twenties, romance, rum

HIGH-RISE

April 30, 2016 By 1 Comment

HIGH-RISE

There is nothing subtle about HIGH-RISE, a savage allegorical satire of manic energy and pointed symbolism. Based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard, it stars Tom Hiddleston as an urbane neurologist about to discover his place in the social order, and Jeremy Irons as The Architect (how Masonic?), the emotionally constipated… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, anarchy, book to screen, class struggle, J G. Ballard, revolution, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, symbolism

Unsteady UNFINISHED BUSINESS

March 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Unsteady UNFINISHED BUSINESS

And so in UNFINISHED BUSINESS, THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT discovers that business as usual in the 21st century is less about facing the difficulties of conformity than it is about taking a cue from the local anarchists.  In the spirit of that anarchy, the film refuses to conform to the principle of… Read More »

GI JOE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Breaking up is hard to do, and sometimes the fate of the whole world hangs in the balance of how it plays out. That’s the theme driving G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, an action film that is not quite as plastic as its namesake and certainly has higher production values. It’s cheerfully cheesy with… Read More »

CASANOVA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CASANOVA is a giddy, good-natured romp with lust on its mind and romance in its heart. Balancing the ironic with the ribald, it’s elegantly served up by Lasse Hallstrom, as it celebrates irreverent repartee and sumptuous self-indulgence reined in only by the limits of imagination. Our title character (Heath Ledger) is a male beauty living… Read More »

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