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The Broken Tower, written and directed by James Franco, starring James Franco, with Michael Shannon.
The most obvious comment is that Hart Crane deserves better.
A complex poet who tried to combine the ecstatic reach of Whitman with a Shakespearean richness of syntax and verbal excess, while haunted by the modernist search for prevailing myths [...]
Continue Reading →Lebanon is an Israeli film that played in U.S. theaters for a few weeks last summer. For those who missed its initial release, it just came out on DVD and is worth catching. While not the absolute masterpiece that some of my fellow critics have claimed, it is a very good film that boasts the [...]
Continue Reading →Whether he intended to or not, writer/director Gareth Edwards has crafted a movie in Monsters that is all about defying expectations. It’s an alien invasion film that avoids the usual pitfalls of the alien invasion genre. There are no massive scenes of aliens or spaceships laying waste to everything in their path. The aliens are [...]
Continue Reading →As a film critic, there are certain occupational hazards you have to face. Namely, that every time you sit down to watch a film, you risk the chance of wasting 90 to 150 minutes of precious time on a turkey. But then you aren’t done with said turkey. You then spend one to two hours [...]
Continue Reading →Written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
As an exercise in futility (a Coen-brothers-appreciation primer if ever there was one), let’s imagine what might have happened had A Serious Man been made by gentiles, or, Hashem forbid, by Arabs.
Under those circumstances, it might be called the most anti-Semitic film of the year.
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Continue Reading →I was hankering for a good adventure movie the other night- something 18th century and swashbuckling. I stumbled upon The Red Tent, on the cover: a tattered crew huddled in a wreck in the middle of an Arctic landscape-and a headshot of Sean Connery. I was sold.
What Andy and I settled down to watch [...]
Continue Reading →The young gentleman might think he has made a capital move by purposely taking his date to see that film about the tubercular Romantic poet whose muse enjoys sewing and butterflies. Quite. But the young gentleman also should be advised to proceed with caution, for the tubercular Romantic poet in question, John Keats, was among [...]
Continue Reading →Written and directed by Max Mayer, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Adam is a new movie about a guy with Asperger’s Syndrome. The guy’s name is Adam.
Before we continue, I would like to say that except maybe in the case of Aladdin or Hamlet or Gandhi, it’s automatically lame when a movie’s title is just its [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, for duty’s sake, I caught a matinee of Orphan, the disposable but not entirely deplorable new horror flick in which a troublemaking tween adoptee seems strangely wise beyond her years and psychopathic beyond her means.
Some people have suggested that Orphan perpetuates the baseless stigmatization of orphans. Maybe. I have an adopted sibling [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, for duty’s sake, I caught a matinee of Orphan, the disposable but not entirely deplorable new horror flick in which a troublemaking tween adoptee seems strangely wise beyond her years and psychopathic beyond her means.
Some people have suggested that Orphan perpetuates the baseless stigmatization of orphans. Maybe. I have an adopted sibling [...]
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