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THE CROW

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE CROW

The word that best describes THE CROW is moribund. Even during the ecstatic orgy of bloodletting that caps this reboot of Alex Proyas’ 1994 film, it is somnambulant as it goes through its paces charting the lengths to which true love can push a young man when faced with the devil. Or his charming associate… Read More »

Tagged With: cheery shades of pink, crow mythology, doomed romance, orgy of bloodletting, reboot, revenge

IT ENDS WITH US

August 9, 2024 By 1 Comment

IT ENDS WITH US, based on the novel by Colleen Hoover, follows blandly in the grand tradition of the Women’s Films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In it, we meet the effulgently monikered Lily Bloom, a woman with a troubled childhood who is returning home through the exquisite New England autumnal landscape to bury her father.… Read More »

Tagged With: Boston, curiously passionless, flashbacks, flower shop, melodrama, neurosurgeon, romance, sequin-studded, symmetrical bitemarks

MUSICA

April 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

MUSICA

Rudy Mancuso (played by . . . Rudy Mancuso) lives in a slightly different universe than the rest of us. Where we hear the rumble of city life, Rudy hears rhythm and music. Where we see people going about their daily lives, Rudy sees syncopated choreography. And that’s the universe that Mancuso, as director and… Read More »

Tagged With: Brazil, marketing degree, meet cute for the ages, music, Newark, obsession, puppets, romance, syncopation

THE LOST CITY

March 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE LOST CITY

Let us praise the genius of Sandra Bullock’s gift for physical comedy. It makes even the small business of teetering on a stool in a fuchsia-sequined jumpsuit an epic of determination, embarrassment, grit, and uncertainty. It is in no small part that THE LOST CITY, on which she was also an executive producer, is such… Read More »

Tagged With: book tour, jungle, male model, mercenary, novelist, sequins, volcano

CYRANO

March 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CYRANO

Joe Wright has a genius for taking the stories we know all too well and making them feel like a delightful new discovery. Seek no further than his take on ANNA KARENINA (interview here), which, pace fans of Garbo and Leigh, is my favorite adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic. Is it absolutely true to the source… Read More »

Tagged With: midget, stage to screen, unrequited love, war

FINDING YOU

May 12, 2021 By 1 Comment

FINDING YOU

FINDING YOU is the quintessence of YA fiction brought to cinematic life. In it, our ordinary, yet winsome heroine, Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) is pursued by a famous movie star, is the only hope of settling a decades-long family feud, and puts all the snooty girls in her orbit in their respective places. All while… Read More »

Tagged With: family feud, fiddling, Ireland, music, teen hearthob, violin

SENIOR MOMENT

March 27, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SENIOR MOMENT

If you are a Wiliiam Shater fanboy or girl, SENIOR MOMENT is the flick you’ve been waiting for. As an aging Lothario with a kooky sidekick (Christopher Lloyd), he oozes the Shatner brand of charm while skating through a predictable story about how Peter Pan finally grows up. He plays Victor, a senior citizen in… Read More »

Tagged With: driver's license, honey buns, little blue pill, Porsche, retirement, senior citizen

CHAOS WALKING

March 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CHAOS WALKING

CHAOS WALKING is a somber affair told in muddy earth tones and moribund action. Based on the book The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, it presents New World in the year 2257, a distant planet colonized by religious humans who have brought with them much of what they should have left back… Read More »

Tagged With: a boy and his dog, book to screen, first love, mind-reading, religion fanaticism, space colonization

A GHOST WAITS

February 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GHOST WAITS

While it is tempting to think of A GHOST WAITS as merely one of the best love story involving a ghost since THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, there is a great deal more going on director/co-writer Adam Stovall’s witty, cinematically rich, yet philosophically dense effort. At the risk of being accused of overthinking it, one… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, black comedy, disappearing pizza, ghosts, haunted house, proletariat struggle, romance, scary clowns

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

December 13, 2020 By 1 Comment

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

John Patrick Shanley’s WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, based on his play Outside Mulligan, is a charmer of an Irish muddle. Committed in its gentle eccentricity, it essays to find the mythic in the quotidien and darn near pulls it off. At least sly humor abounds as the determined Rosemary (Emily Blunt) pines for Anthony (Jamie Dornan)… Read More »

Tagged With: farming, inheritance, Ireland, romance

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