Gerald Peary
Ace film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Are men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.
Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.
So what’s the verdict on The Irish Pub? A well-meaning film, but lacking in excitement.
Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.
There’s no debate: The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel, with Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn as also-rans.
Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..
Jealousy is a misleading title for this touching movie, as the characters are less jealous than forlorn when those they love move on to other loves.
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