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SPY

June 5, 2015 By 2 Comments

SPY

When I reviewed BRIDESMAIDS, I spent a great deal of my verbiage on Melissa McCarthy’s supporting performance. Rarely had I seen an actress, or actor for that matter, so fearless, so sure of him- or herself, and with such a preternatural gift for discovering humor in the most unexpected places. She was nominated for an… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, espionage, Jason Statham, Jude Law, melissa mccarthy, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne, spoof

ALFIE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The thing about Jude Law is that he is so unbelievably beautiful. Such is his pulchritude, not to mention his irresistible onscreen charm, that it’s easy to overlook the undeniable acting chops that are greater even than the sum of his more ephemeral gifts. In ALFIE, Charles Shyer’’s re-make of the 60s classic that starred… Read More »

Tagged With: charismatic cad, Charles Shyer, comedy-drama, director, Elaine Pope, Jude Law, narrative, remake

Dr. Sasha Bardey Knows his SIDE EFFECTS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Dr. Sasha Bardey Knows his SIDE EFFECTS

Of all the people involved in the making of Steven Soderbergh’s SIDE EFFECTS, Dr. Sasha Bardey may have been the perfect interivew subject. The film is a psychological thriller of the first order, with the classic Hitchcockian motif of an innocent bystander being suddenly entangled in a fiendish plot that spells certain doom for that… Read More »

Tagged With: Catharine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, forensic psychiatry, Jude Law, mental health, mystery, Riker's Island, Rooney Mara, Sasha Bardey, Scott Z. Burns, SIDE EFFECTS, Steven Soderbergh, suspense, thriller

Charles Shyer Rethinks ALFIE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Charles Shyer Rethinks ALFIE

It takes a lot of moxie to make re-make a classic, and it takes a certain flair to do it successfully. Charles Shyer demonstrated both as the director and co-writer (with Elaine Pope) of the iconic 60s classic about a charismatic cad. Rethinking the story to reflect a 21st century sensibility and casting Jude Law… Read More »

Tagged With: absinthe, charismatic cad, Charles Shyer, Christopher Walken, comedy-drama, director, Elaine Pope, Jude Law, narrative, remake, Romania, THE ODD COUPLE

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