A trip through director Robert Eggers’ filmography will be most useful for those experiencing his work for the first time. A word to the wise — marketing Eggers films to mainstream audiences is tricky, so his trailers are cut to sell you something you think you are familiar with. His debut “The Witch” was not […]
The most charming and fortuitous part of this film is the opening when Eloise (McKenzie) is dancing with abandon in her bedroom anticipating her dreams coming true in becoming a fashion designer in London. She has been accepted into a design school there and has high hopes of being a success. Her grandmother (Nolan) whom she lives
In an extraordinary production directed by Marjane Satrapi and starring Rosamund Pike as Madame Curie, we hear the story of an eccentric scientist who won two Nobel prizes through much conflict and a certain amount of public hatred. She was the first woman to win a Nobel, notably being relatively unimpressed with it, but at the
Aside from the gorgeous production design that looks like the inside of an Easter basket, do we really need another film version of Emma? The answer is no, and the longer you watch music video director Autumn de Wilde wallow in her directorial debut, it becomes more apparent. Wilde is either trying too hard or
If you have ever watched or been that child who bangs his toys together out of pure destruction, out of boredom or just being done with those particular toys; you can imagine what “Glass” is like through an adult prism. Writer and director M. Night Shyamalan is a polarizing filmmaker whose concepts and ideas typically
Cory Finley’s directorial debut is a sleeper, without the word hit being attached to it. A sleeper in the sense, I couldn’t sustain my interested and barely kept my eyes open. That’s surprising for a film that deals with two disturbed teenage girls plotting to kill a stepdad. Finley’s original screenplay looks at the story
The one element of Split that should have worked above everything else was James McAvoy’s multiple personality performance. Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan returns after mediocre success with The Visit (2015), claiming Split was his most difficult shoot to date. The difficulty seems to be inherent as Shyamalan introduces too many components that detract from McAvoy’s