I want to rub this trailer all over me – Carnage
Rapery aside, I like Roman Polanski’s work. It’s easy to remember that with The Ghost Writer fresh in my memory. It seems his upcoming film, Carnage is widely anticipated, and rightly so. The film is an actor’s showcase, taking place in a single apartment, and features what is virtually a single conversation between two couples after their children are involved in an altercation. I love these sorts of dialogue heavy films, and... Read More
I want to rub this trailer all over me – Mildred Pierce
So it’s not a movie. It’s HBO. And get a look at that all-star cast. Kate Winslet is enough to get me to watch. The rest is just gravy. Read More
Revolutionary Road
Every year, everyone has issues with the Academy’s nominees. It’s no secret that Oscar doesn’t usually recognize the best pictures of the year, and everyone likes to point that out. Myself included. It seems that this year, his biggest misstep is ignoring Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road. I mean, what the hell? The mess of a movie The Reader gets a best picture nod, and the only bone that gets thrown to Road is a best... Read More
The Reader
The Reader flops around for it’s two hour running time like a chicken with its head cut off. Or like a fire hose on full blast without anyone to control where the flow of water should go. Or like Elle Driver in Kill Bill, in that trailer bathroom after Beatrix Kiddo plucked her other eye out. I haven’t read the book (written by Bernhard Schlink), so I can’t comment on quality of the adaptation by David Hare. But I can say... Read More
Little Children
Todd Field is a genius director. That’s all there is to it. His 2004 hit In the Bedroom was universally recognized as a terrific film, and Little Children was nothing short of fantastic. The film is based on the book by Tom Perrotta. Read my review of the book here. Field wrote the screenplay, as well as directed. Sarah (Kate Winslet) is a feminist. A a former member of the intelligentsia who came this close to getting a master’s... Read More
