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F.I.L.M. of the Week (August 19, 2011)
Anne Hathaway can do so much better than the romantic rut she’s leading herself into. The actress seems to have an incredibly fiery, passionate base of detractors, something that I really don’t...
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SAVE YOURSELF from “The Company Men”
It must be tough to make a movie about unemployment after “Up in the Air.” After Jason Reitman’s film so ingeniously brought employees who had actually been downsized in front of the camera to tell...
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REVIEW: Your Sister’s Sister
All too often, small-scale indie comedies fall into the “coulda been a contenduh” category. They have great potential to succeed, but like Greek tragic heroes, all have some kind of flaw that prevents...
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REVIEW: Promised Land
Gus Van Sant has called “Promised Land” his attempt at Capra, which is a noble thing to aim for – and it has certainly been largely MIA in today’s cinema. But his film is hardly “Mr. Smith Goes to...
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REVIEW: Touchy Feely
How ironic that director Lynn Shelton should begin to lose her touch in the film “Touchy Feely,” a film about people who literally touch for a living. All the seemingly effortless perceptiveness into...
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REVIEW: Men, Women & Children
In 2009, Jason Reitman added a potent subplot to his film “Up in the Air” that dealt with some of the alienation people feel in a depersonalized, technology-laden society. Five years later, he arrives...
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REVIEW: Kill the Messenger
Michael Cuesta’s “Kill the Messenger” plays like an “All the President’s Men” for an era of the lone eagle rather than the journalistic tag team. Jeremy Renner stars as muckraking journalist Gary...
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REVIEW: Digging for Fire
As writer/director Joe Swanberg wanders the corridors of marital discontent in his latest film, “Digging for Fire,” I could not help but wonder if this is what Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” would...
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REVIEW: La La Land
Houston Cinema Arts Festival Richard Dyer, perhaps the most important modern academic writer on the cinematic musical, divided the genre into three camps. The first two, backstage and the more...
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