We last saw actor George MacKay as a man who thought he was inhuman in the bizarre film “Wolf.” Before that, he dodged bombs with impressive stuntman-like ability in the Oscar-winning “1917.” His filmography is nothing if not a list of challenges, both physically and mentally. One of his latest, “Femme,” […]
Wolf implies that “species identification disorder” is common, when in fact “species dysphoria” is a very rare condition. I found this movie misleading and distasteful in so many ways. First of all, the “hospital” staff treat the humans like animals, expecting them to become human, e.g., shaming them into compliance. The filmmakers appear to know nothing about proven behavioral
You might have seen the disappointing 2003 flick “Ned Kelly” that’s more historically based. Even though “True History of the Kelly Gang” is far more fictionalized, it is also far more compelling. The first of the canceled theatrical releases that truly deserved to be seen on the big screen, it’s also the first VOD release
Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) has a somewhat erratic filmography. How can the same guy who directed “Skyfall” also be the same person behind “Away We Go?” This same man directed the brilliant cinematic crime film “Road to Perdition” before jumping to intimate family drama “Revolutionary Road.” Mendes’s range doesn’t necessarily speak to his talent and
It’s probably not a coincidence that opening sequence shots in “Ophelia” resemble Kings Landing from “Game of Thrones”. The Disney like voice over in the prologue, “the story you don’t know”, quickly dispels the association that this will be anything as riveting as HBO’s bloodthirsty shock-value series. Lisa Klein’s novel might borrow names from Shakespeare,
There is a beauty inside Matt Ross’s film “Captain Fantastic” that is rare and unexplored on film. What might appear as an eccentric, unorthodox father, endangering the lives of his six children by raising them on 300-year-old methods. An open minded viewer might instead find a film that explores the difficulties of parenthood regardless of