I consider Noah Baumbach like the less popular brother of Wes Anderson. Baumbach (The Squid & The Whale, Margot At the Wedding) worked on scripts with Anderson and the two have been friends for a while, so it isn’t surprising that the characters in While We’re Young feel similar to those in an Anderson film. […]
This might just be the timeliest film of 2015, with weekly reports of college fraternity embarrassments or just college students doing deplorable actions. Director Lone Scherfig (An Education) and screenwriter Laura Wade (based on her play) adapt this story about the behavior of the spoiled, rich, 1% as we say in the states. While the
Following in the footsteps of “Philomena” or “Erin Brockovich”, “Woman in Gold” delivers a powerful story about injustice that dates all the way back to the Nazi’s. “The past is asking something of the present”. Based on the incredible true story, Helen Mirren returns to fill the role of the bossy tight lipped female as
Back in 2001, when Universal Studios realized fast cars could equate money, The Fast & The Furious was actually about racing. The two stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker were at the center of a film I doubt anyone understood would be going stronger than ever after installment number seven. The series reinvention along the
Kit Lambert and Christopher Stamp became managers of The Who when they were named The High Numbers, and most of this documentary is about them—their relationship, how they got started in the business, and the ups and downs of the group, which ultimately rejected them, although the two had pretty much disengaged from each other
The Salt of the Earth title of this excellent documentary refers to the famed Brazilian photographer, Sabastiao Salgado, who photographed life, death, animals, and nature in over 100 countries from the time he was a young married man and began using his wife’s camera. He is now 71, and they live in Paris where they
I was put off by Home right from the beginning by the “language” invented for the aliens from another planet, called the Boov. It slaughters the English language by messing with the grammar, e.g., “I needs help. You are arresting (arrested). Can I come into the out?” I’ll be interested to hear what children actually
Shot in 2012 and then marred by disastrous post-production issues, Serena, adapted from the best seller and directed by Susanne Bier, isn’t the best work from Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) or Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook). Marking their third time on screen together, Serena once again puts Lawrence back in Western North Carolina, where she
I am typically not a fan of abstract or overly qwerky films that seem only to exist to be unusual and different. However, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter by the Zellner Brothers is something I couldn’t get out of my head after seeing it. It’s based on the craziest true story I have heard in a
David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, which is currently sitting around 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, suffers from the assumption that unorthodox equals genuine. Based on a reoccurring nightmare Mitchell has, It Follows attempts to avoid horror genre clichés only by falling into even worse clichés. Presented in a voyeuristic style, the film opens with a