Gloria
One of my personal favorites from this past year’s Toronto International Film Festival (where it was announced as Chile’s representative …
Category Archives: Briefs
Winter’s Tale
Celebrated screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind and I Am Legend) turns to novelist Mark Helprin for his first effort …
That Awkward Moment
Romantic comedy screenwriters want us to believe that love is full of cute challenges, those inconsequential moments blown out of …
The Invisible Woman
Ralph Fiennes has made a career being typecast as men of indomitable intelligence with a healthy sense of the romantic. …
Lone Survivor
Writer-director Peter Berg (The Rundown and The Kingdom) knows a thing or two about framing high-testosterone action sequences. The camera …
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The ever-unassuming Walter Mitty (director Ben Stiller, seemingly unable to choose just one side of the camera to focus on) …
Grudge Match
Thirty years ago, Henry “Razor” Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy “The Kid” McDonnen (Robert De Niro) were on a collision …
Inside Llewyn Davis
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a typically flawed protagonist in the Coen Brothers mold. A Folk singer of some relative …
Saving Mr. Banks
Poor P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson); she was such a cold woman. Full of that stiff-upper-lip game-facing that we’ve come to …
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club serves as the latest yellow brick on the road to career redemption for Matthew McConaughey. Remember the …
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