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MADE IN ITALY

August 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MADE IN ITALY

A story well told is always worth our attention, and thus it is with MADE IN ITALY, a heart-warming tale of coming to terms with the past in order to face a future without the burden of unresolved grief and lingering complacency. Set for the most part in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, its pacing and… Read More »

Tagged With: broken heart, divorce, estrangement, father-son relationship, grief, guilt, Italy, remodeling, Tuscany

HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

November 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing I wanted to talk to Har’el when we spoke on October 10, 2019, was how tender the film. This despite portraying the harrowing, real-life childhood and adult struggles with anger and addiction of the film’s writer and co-star, Shia LeBeouf. Entwining parallel stories of LeBeouf’s… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, child actor, childhood trauma, emotional triggers, father-son relationship, mime, PTSD, semi-autobiographical

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

April 24, 2016 By 1 Comment

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

LOUDER THAN BOMBS begins with a perfect picture of family love. Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) is marveling at his newborn as his wife Amy, (Megan Ketch) looks on beaming. Jonah is beaming, too, and he is aghast that he has forgotten to bring his wife the food she had requested when she discovered that the hospital tray… Read More »

Tagged With: brothers, car accident, depression, father-son relationship, infidelity, maternal death, photojournalist

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are TIGER ORANGE

June 2, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are TIGER ORANGE

Wade Gasque and Mark Strano are partners in the film business and in life. When I spoke to them by phone on June 2, 2015, the first question I had was about the sort of trust they have in each other when working on a film that is so personal to Strano. We went on… Read More »

Tagged With: Best Actor, father-son relationship, Frankie Valenti, fraternal relationship, Johnny Hazzard, LGBT, Mark Strano, movie, narrative, Outfest Grand Jury Award, single father, small town, TIGER ORANGE, Wade Gasque

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

March 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

Narratively, DANNY COLLINS commits more than a few faux pas, but there is such warmth to the melancholy of a life discovered to have been wasted, that the winces they produce are worth enduring. Writer/director Dan Fogelman (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE) may be too quick the play the melodrama card, but I prefer to focus on… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Pacino, Annette Benning, Bobby Cannavale, comedy-drama, Dan Fogelman, DANNY COLLINS, father-son relationship, film, Jennifer Garner, John Lennon, mid-life crisis, movie, rock star, singer

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

March 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

There is a reason that there is a rigid formula for Liam Neeson action films:  it has a tendency to hit more than it misses.  In RUN ALL NIGHT, the tropes are all present and accounted for with the variations that are permitted within the formula’s rules.  Neeson is the everyman with, you will pardon… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Common, crime thriller, drama, Ed Harris, explosion, father-son relationship, fistfight, gunfight, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, narrative, New York City, suspense, Vincent D'Onofrio

SANCTUM

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SANCTUM

James Cameron neither wrote nor directed SANCTUM, but his fingerprints as the executive producer of same are all over it. Visually, it’’s an exhilarating experience. As for the storytelling, the word lugubrious comes to mind. The writing is stiff and ridden with clichés, with cheese-ish motifs overwhelmed by swelling, overwrought music cues that forge straight… Read More »

Tagged With: 3-D, cave diving, eco-tourism. adrenaline junkie, father-son relationship, jungle, Papua New Guinea

THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY

There is one overwhelming question about THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY. Why isn’’t this a better flick? It certainly has all the right elements. The cast, led by Henry Cavill and Sigourney Weaver, are solidly committed. The story is the kind that Hitchcock loved. An innocent man plunged into a life-and-death situation not of his… Read More »

Tagged With: car chase, espionage, family dynamics, father-son relationship, hitmen, Madrid, secret agents, Spain

TOGETHER (HAN NI ZAI YIKI)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TOGETHER (HAN NI ZAI YIKI)

What does music mean? It’s an interesting question and one posed with grace and not a little irony by Chen Kaige in TOGETHER. Using the backdrop of the uneasy cultural shifts in contemporary China and the ever mysterious dynamics of the father-son relationship, he has brought forth film that is deeply affecting and rapturously beautiful.… Read More »

Tagged With: Chen Kaige, China, cultural revolution, father-son relationship, hairstyle, music teacher, musician, politics, violin

AT ANY PRICE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

AT ANY PRICE

The genius of Ramin Bahrani’’s AT ANY PRICE is the way it talks about things without actually talking about them. This is a story of cause-and-effect, with the failings of a father reflecting the corruption of the American Dream. Though it takes place in the heartland, on that most homespun and wholesome of enterprises, the… Read More »

Tagged With: agribusiness, agriculture, Dennis Quaid, farming, father-son relationship, GMO, Ramin Bahrani, Zac Efron

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