A fantastic film? Not really. “In the House” is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
Film Review: In Defense of a Cinematic Masterpiece — “To the Wonder”
To The Wonder — the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.
Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing
A movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.
Fuse News Film Review: “Blancanieves” — Silent Film Redux
“Blancanieves” is not quite as charming as “The Artist,” but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.
Film Review: A Not So “Fierce Green Fire”
This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.
Fuse News: Farewell, My Darling Annette
No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!
Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View
What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.
Film Review: “Ricky on Leacock” — A Definitive Documentary of a Pioneer Filmmaker
A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.
Fuse Theater Review: The Art of Escaping from Dread — Guillermo Calderón’s “Neva”
Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov’s widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.