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NEWS OF THE WORLD

December 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War, Confederate, Kiowa, Native-American, occupation, Reconstruction, Refugees, Texas, western

FATALE

December 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

FATALE

FATALE is a densely plotted and devilishly twisted erotic fantasy of a noir. Filmed with self-conscious style, it offers a variation on FATAL ATTRACTION that is not without merit, yet with a bemused view of womanhood that gives one pause. We are firmly ensconced in the, admittedly noir Madonna/whore paradigm here, but making a woman… Read More »

Tagged With: FATAL ATTRACTION, infidelity, Las Vegas, madonna/whore, murder, noir, seamy underbelly

ANTEBELLUM

December 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ANTEBELLUM

Of the many neat twists in ANTEBELLUM, the most disturbing of all is the one that concerns the state of race relations in the modern day, and how slavery still informs it. By contrasting the subtle, and not so subtle, micro-aggressions forced upon people of color in the present with the brutality of slavery as… Read More »

Tagged With: microaggression, patriarchy, racism, slavery, torture

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

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

ALABAMA SNAKE

December 6, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALABAMA SNAKE

Filmmaker Theo Love wisely begins ALABAMA SNAKE with the only part of this lurid tale of religion, sex, and booze that is not in dispute. That would be when two paramedics drive down a dark country road, on October 4, 1991, sirens and flashing lights off, only to find Darlene Summerford stumbling towards them, clutching… Read More »

Tagged With: Alabama, attempted murder, belief, documentary, Pentecosts, rattlesnake, snake handler, Theo Love, venomous snakes

BELUSHI

November 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BELUSHI

Click here for the flashback interview with RJ Cutler for THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. Early on in R.J. Cutler’s documentary, BELUSHI, Harold Ramis talks about John Belushi’s enormous appetites for everything. It would be his downfall, the appetite for drugs, that is, but Cutler smartly focuses on the other appetites, the enormous ambition, and also the… Read More »

Tagged With: drugs, John Belushi, Saturday Night Live, The Blue Brothers

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 21, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

Full disclosure. I spend every November 22nd watching Oliver Stone’s JFK. Partly because it is so visually arresting, partly for the compelling story, and partly for the nostalgia I have for my childhood home of New Orleans. It doesn’t matter that I knew even before first seeing it that Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner in full… Read More »

Tagged With: JFK, Kennedy Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruth Paine, Vincent Bugliosi, Warren Commission

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

November 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

It’s possible that a working knowledge of Canadian culture and politics might annotate the sheer joy of watching Matthew Rankin’s THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, but a lack of same in no way diminishes it. This rapturously surreal romp through fascism, propaganda, and the perils of love delights in its arch embrace of retro-futuristic artifice and vintage… Read More »

Tagged With: cactus, Canada, Canada Geese, imperialism, politics, satire, surrealism

MY SUMMER AS A GOTH

November 11, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MY SUMMER AS A GOTH

MY SUMMER AS A GOTH ticks all the right boxes for a YA story designed to offer the comfort of the familiar in a framework that sets up a gaggle of paper tigers for the heroine (and her audience) to confront. A brooding bad boy, a dangerous bad boy, and a tempestuous mother-daughter relationship provide… Read More »

Tagged With: crypt, dead father, Goth, mother-daughter relationship, summer romance

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