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IT ENDS WITH US

August 9, 2024 By 1 Comment

IT ENDS WITH US, based on the novel by Colleen Hoover, follows blandly in the grand tradition of the Women’s Films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In it, we meet the effulgently monikered Lily Bloom, a woman with a troubled childhood who is returning home through the exquisite New England autumnal landscape to bury her father.… Read More »

Tagged With: Boston, curiously passionless, flashbacks, flower shop, melodrama, neurosurgeon, romance, sequin-studded, symmetrical bitemarks

MUSICA

April 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

MUSICA

Rudy Mancuso (played by . . . Rudy Mancuso) lives in a slightly different universe than the rest of us. Where we hear the rumble of city life, Rudy hears rhythm and music. Where we see people going about their daily lives, Rudy sees syncopated choreography. And that’s the universe that Mancuso, as director and… Read More »

Tagged With: Brazil, marketing degree, meet cute for the ages, music, Newark, obsession, puppets, romance, syncopation

THE TASTE OF THINGS — Tran Anh Hung Interview

February 15, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE TASTE OF THINGS — Tran Anh Hung Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Tran Anh Hung’s THE TASTE OF THINGS is that rare film that makes you believe you can taste, smell, and feel the food being prepared on screen. That the story is one of passion of many types adds to the power the sensory experience. Based on the novel… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century France, based on a novel, gastronomy, gourmand, haute cuisine, ortolon, romance, texture of sound

ASTEROID CITY

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

ASTEROID CITY

Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY presents us a dream within a dream as it ponders our place in the cosmos by setting its story in three separate realities that bump into each other the way subatomic particles swarm around an atomic nucleus. Is it synchronicity or chance or some other cosmic law of which humanity is… Read More »

Tagged With: competing realities, cremains, desert, military emergency, romance

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

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