If anyone could have saved HOT PURSUIT, it would have been Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. Aside from having scads of talent and audience appeal, they both have a keen understanding of their strengths as performers, yet they never quite cross the line into becoming caricatures of themselves. Here, the co-stars and co-producers have found… Read More »
VANITY FAIR
Mira Nair’s telling of Thackery’s classic, VANITY FAIR, is a lush, sprawling, sensual film that totters unevenly under the weight of its own ambition. It’s an apt metaphor considering that its heroine, Becky Sharpe, has the same Achilles Heel. Blithely skipping through so many decades of necessity leads to a feeling of sketchiness in some… Read More »
Josh Lucas Visits SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Josh Lucas has so far made a career of playing less than savory characters, from a vapid narcissist in AMERICAN PSYCHO to a sleazy club owner leading a minor astray in THE DEEP END. With Jake, the not-quite-ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon’s Melanie in SWEET HOME ALABAMA, he gets to play a nice guy for a change,… Read More »