Currently Browsing: May 2014
Feh! In this dismal display of “least common denominator” filmmaking, Seth Rogan goes mano-a-mano with Zac Ephron, totally wasting the talents of all concerned. Neighbors has one of those “concept plots” that sounds like it was cooked up in a bar: what if some guy is living in the suburbs and he has just become […]
After her mother dies, a grieving daughter (Sylvie Testud) finds documents that reveal a lost chapter in the lives of her parents. Gorgeous semi-autobiographical period film written & directed by Diane Kurys turns out to be about French Holocaust survivors who find it difficult to put the horror behind them. Sensuous and heart-breaking, For a Woman is a totally […]
Spare to a fault, the new Polish drama Ida leaves so much open to interpretation that it becomes a Rorschach Test. And sad to say, the things you see in it are likely to reflect what you knew about the Holocaust — or thought you knew — before you ever entered the theatre. Shout-Out to My Mishpokhe: […]
A tip of the hat to Pierre Dulaine! In 1994, long before ballroom dancing received mainstream acclaim through the wildly popular TV show Dancing With The Stars (which premiered in 2005 and is now in its 18th season after having received multiple EMMY nominations almost every year from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences), […]