Ender’s Game (Hood, 2013)
I've spent the three days between viewing and reviewing Ender's Game listlessly trying to convince myself that the film didn't suck.
I've spent the three days between viewing and reviewing Ender's Game listlessly trying to convince myself that the film didn't suck.
Standing Up begins and ends with a reference to God. In between, Howie and Grace confront a childhood trauma with a mix of fragility, resiliency, and candor that is rare… Continue reading "Standing Up (Caruso, 2013)"
It’s hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint: the male friendship, the commitment to letter writing, or the quiet quality of its emotional… Continue reading "Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)"
Every good escape plan needs three things:
There are film critics and then there are movie guys.
The theory was--or is--that creating borders, or writing ourselves into a corner, facilitates creativity.
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
After the first seven minutes, I was worried, but then I realized the first seven minutes were actually a preview for a Metallica concert film.