A beautifully rendered film about a remarkable child abandoned by her family and growing up alone in a shack in the marshland of North Carolina. Isolated from most of the town of Barkley Cove, she is called “the marsh girl” by townspeople who make up all kinds of negative stories about her. There are kindly people […]
What people do when they get older varies immeasurably, depending on family, circumstances, personal preference, and many other reasons. That there is a group of oldsters who travel around—mostly in vans and RVs—is new to me, as probably for most of us. Some are facing the end of life and want to make the most of it,
Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut is a tough pill to swallow. The Moulin Rouge star has been attached to the blacklisted project for about a decade as directors fell by the waste side. Phillip Roth is a difficult author to adapt under the most educated and talented circumstances. McGregor’s inexperience combined with the dense subject matter
Fractured would have been a better title. In fact, in Paris this film is called Back Home, due to the recent terror attacks. Louder than Bombs is the first English language film from Danish writer/director Joachim Trier and I do hope he makes more. It’s rare to have a film about a family, in this
James Franco will never be the actor that people think of him as; he is this artistic unit that chases projects that stand by themselves and have lots of people scratching their heads. Of course, Franco has the big budget Oz the Great and Powerful to satisfy those unaware of these small projects he dabbles