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A GHOST WAITS

February 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GHOST WAITS

While it is tempting to think of A GHOST WAITS as merely one of the best love story involving a ghost since THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, there is a great deal more going on director/co-writer Adam Stovall’s witty, cinematically rich, yet philosophically dense effort. At the risk of being accused of overthinking it, one… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, black comedy, disappearing pizza, ghosts, haunted house, proletariat struggle, romance, scary clowns

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

ALMOST LOVE — Mike Doyle and Scott Evans Interview

April 1, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALMOST LOVE — Mike Doyle and Scott Evans Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. feature film directorial debut.  We got to that later in our interview on June 26, 2019, along with his take on being directed by Clint Eastwood  in JERSEY BOYS.  Before then, he and co-star Scott Evans, who plays one half of a long-term couple at a crossroads, graciously humored me with… Read More »

Tagged With: directorial debut, ice cream truck, jejune, LGBTQ, romance

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

July 13, 2019 By 1 Comment

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

We learn many things in SPIDERMAN FAR FROM HOME. We learn that not only are the Dutch polyglots, but also that they are the nicest people on earth, even when a private jet is making hash of their iconic tulip fields. We learn that saving the planet is just as important as getting that first… Read More »

Tagged With: Freudian nightmare, high school, Jungian archetype, Marvel Comic book character, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, romance, school trip, sequel, Spiderman

PLUS ONE

June 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

PLUS ONE

Ben (Jack Quaid) and Alice (Maya Erskine) have reached that awkward age. Nearing thirty and still single, their lives have become a mad whirl of watching their friends and family pair up for the long haul with wedding vows, corny toasts, and too much champagne. Unable to further bear the stigma of being seated at… Read More »

Tagged With: plus one, romance, wedding speech, weddings

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

January 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

Click here to listen to the interview. Full disclosure, my sister, when she was 12, was in a film with Gloria Grahame.  It was a pretty forgettable horror film, and they had no scenes together, but it made for some nice small talk with Paul McGuigan before we settled down to our conversation about FILM… Read More »

Tagged With: Barbara Broccoli, based on a true story, cinematography, coincidence, Elvis Costello, Eve Stewart, externalizing memory, Gloria Grahame, Jamie Bell, Margaret Thatcher, memoir, memory, Paul Turner, privatization, rear-screen projections, romance, synchronicity, tap shoes, Urszula Pontikos

FUTURE ’38

December 26, 2017 By 1 Comment

FUTURE ’38

There is a dividing line for those contemplating a viewing of FUTURE ’38. It has to do with wordplay. If you love puns you will be charmed by the whole-hearted impudence of this self-conscious parody.  If not, best to move along, though you will miss a fine excursion into dead-pan drollery. As premise, we have… Read More »

Tagged With: pun, romance, Sci-fi, spoof, time travel

DAVE MADE A MAZE

August 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DAVE MADE A MAZE

The search for meaning has never been more puckishly considered than in DAVE MADE A MAZE, an ingenious horror-fantasy-comedy of existential angst.  Rife with metaphor and deadly origami come to life, it finds the time-space continuum falling victim to one man’s determination to finally finish something he started, and explores the deadly results of leaving… Read More »

Tagged With: booby traps, fantasy, forced perspective, labyrinth, maze, minotaur, romance, vagina dentata

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

August 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

In a way, it would be a shame to saddle Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds with too much plot in THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. The snark fest that they provide as adversaries forced to endure one another’s company is its own reward as they travel from Manchester to The Hague while fending off some very… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, bodyguard, buddy picture, contract killer, Manchester, romance, The Hague, weaponized hardware store

THE BIG SICK

June 30, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE BIG SICK

You can’t blame Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon for thinking that the story of their romance had the makings of a great movie. Kumail (playing himself), a Pakistani immigrant doing stand-up comedy meets graduate student (in psychology, yet), Emily (doe-eyed but tart Zoe Kazan), when she “whoo hoos” him at one of his shows.… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, based on a true story, Chicago, coma, culture clash, Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistan, parents, romance

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