Many people have decried Marilyn Monroe after her death for being just a glamorpuss and not an actress - her famed flakiness on the set was excused by the knowledge of her own personal turmoils and compensated by her sensational popularity as a sex symbol. I wish I had more of a context to […]
No, it’s not the recent release a.k.a. I Once Had A Life starring Jon Voigt, but the Buster Keaton silent classic. Since it’s not in wide re-release, basically this is a “Go rent this movie” kind of review. I was fortunate enough to see it on the biggish screen with Guy Forsythe’s live […]
This film is only available on DVD, so please make the effort if this subject at all interests you. I was not familiar with this incredibly devastating flood of May 31, 1889, but the painstaking labors of Mike and Mark Bussler have truly brought this story to life. Considerately not taking any foreknowledge […]
What is more fun than a Hollywood adaptation of a Shakespeare play? A Hollywood interpretation of the process of a stage production of a Shakespeare play! In the spirit of the extremely entertaining A Midwinter’s Tale comes Macbeth in Manhattan. I myself, despite my high movie-going quotient, actually do manage to work […]
This movie came and went in theatres, not helped by its weird name and lack of car chases. It’s written and directed by the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan), best known recently for Fargo, but also loved for Raising Arizona and Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink (which, by the way, I hate), and Blood Simple.
Hudsucker […]
(with the short, “Signing Off”) www.firstrunfeatures.com
The short, Signing Off, was a wonderful New Zealander farce about a DJ going to extraordinary lengths to honor a request. It’s definitely not realistic but it is really clever and funny. And even poignant - the NZers, like their British cousins, have managed to hold […]
