In Maier's work, that argument increasingly comes across as the way Masters sold the study to the public and made his work sound more respectable and altruistic than it perhaps always was. The show is starting to echo that. For all its heavy-handedness, I continue to appreciate that it doesn't idealize or rationalize the adultery.
Dream Deceivers stops short of insisting on an explicit connection between Mrs. Vance's religion and her willingness to blame heavy metal music for her family's dysfunction. But only just.
Despite the many second act flaws, the film is not without merit. The opening act is very strong, the four leads dig into their characters with relish, and Arturo Rogriguez composed an effective, atmospheric score.
Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.
It is perhaps too early to write off the sophomore year as a disappointment, but it is no longer too early to call its unevenness a trend.
I don't think I'm holier than anyone who watches what I don't.
Levitated Mass is one of those delightful, obscure but unheralded documentaries that always seems to congregate around my the bottom of my list of annual favorites.
Even if, like me, you care little for Brown's music, there is still a lot in the film about race, gender relations, friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, childhood, and determination to give you plenty to think about.
The don't-call-it-an-affair between Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters has been the one element of Masters of Sex that most blatantly deviates from Thomas Maier's biography of the same title.
Clannad is an ambitious anime, touching on themes of friendship, family, grief, memory, and growing up.
