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MOVING ON — Paul Weitz Interview

March 25, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MOVING ON — Paul Weitz Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. Paul Weitz, who directed Lily Tomlin in the criminally underappreciated GRANDMA a few years back, was delighted to be invited by her and her Grace & Frankie co-star, Jane Fonda, to write a script for them. The result is MOVING ON, a deeply human black comedy about… Read More »

Tagged With: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, murder, puffer fish, revenge, Richard Roundtree

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

November 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

At one point during Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION, one of the character wails “What is reality?” It’s a fair question considering the plot twist that has just been revealed to the suitably colorful cast of characters, and one that neatly sums up why Mr. Johnson’s second installment in the casebook of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)… Read More »

Tagged With: conspicuous excess, Greek island, murder, mystery, private island

THE GOOD NURSE

October 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE GOOD NURSE

There are two villains in THE GOOD NURSE,  the based on the true-crime book by Charles Graeber, and the first English-language film from Tobias Lindholm (ANOTHER ROUND, THE HUNT). One villain is the serial killer, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) who worked for years as a nurse killing patients while raising suspicions, but never prosecutions, at… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, cardiac condition, health insurance, hospital administration, murder, serial killer

SEE HOW THEY RUN

September 19, 2022 By 1 Comment

SEE HOW THEY RUN

SEE HOW THEY RUN is a handsomely mounted period piece with a clever premise undermined by an irksome dithering about its tone and a rampant directorial lethargy. Calling out tropes from cinema and literary mysteries with the sort of wild abandon from which the pacing would have profited, this uneven comedy takes us to 1953,… Read More »

Tagged With: Agatha Christie, detective, farce, London, murder, mystery, neophyte, screenwriter, theater

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

August 13, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES answers the question “What if a group of friends, trapped in a house in the middle of nowhere, suddenly turned on each other?” Actually, the more salient question is what if a group of friends, with varying degrees of irritating personality disorders, found themselves in those circumstances, would anyone care who made… Read More »

Tagged With: hurricane, murder, nastiness, remote house, toxic personality, trust-funders, vapid

VENGEANCE

July 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

VENGEANCE

Ostensibly a mystery, and a nifty one at that, VENGEANCE is much more. BJ Novak has spun a savage takedown of the media and elite presumptions, but one that is also considered, literate, and even a bit compassionate. At least on the level of allowing redemption of sorts for the silly creatures called human beings… Read More »

Tagged With: Brooklyn hipster, Chekov, murder, mystery, oil field, overdose, Texas

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 16, 2022 By 1 Comment

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

One senses that the novel of the same name on which WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING possessed some lovely prose. Certainly, when the narration includes lines from the book, there is the dark poetic ring of classic Southern Gothic reverberating from the musings on death intoned by the adult version of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Whatever philosophical… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, child abuse, classism, disappointing men, marsh, murder, mystery, North Carolina, swamp, trial

THE TANGLE

March 10, 2021 By 1 Comment

THE TANGLE

Be advised. THE TANGLE is a hard-boiled techno-noir to which close attention must be paid. Fortunately, this intriguing bit of speculative fiction is also an enticing piece of filmmaking, making that requirement a pleasure. Rendered with a suitably moody chiaroscuro and a mid-century vibe, this murder mystery is plotted with fiendishly clever twists, while the… Read More »

Tagged With: interconnectedness, murder, near future, techno-noir

KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

March 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

KEEP AN EYE OUT (Au Poste)

The French title of Quentin Dupieux’s latest film, KEEP AN EYE OUT, relies on a clever bit of wordplay in its two words, AU POSTE. One of the meanings of poste is police station, where the action takes place. Another is post, as in taking up one’s post. There are more, the translation of which… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, murder, oyster, police drama, pun, satire

DARA OF JASENOVAC

February 16, 2021 By Leave a Comment

DARA OF JASENOVAC

DARA OF JASENOVAC is a brutal film about a lesser-known part of the Holocaust. Based on the testimony of survivors, it expounds on Jasenovac, the only Fascist concentration camps in World War II that were not run by the Nazis themselves. Instead, inspired and advised by the Nazis, they were established by the Roman Catholic… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, murder, sadism, Serbia, World War II

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