Posts Tagged ‘Patricia Clarkson’
Episode 137 – Renfield
For this podcast, we review the vampire comedy, Renfield, starring Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult. We also look back at last year’s MeToo drama, She Said, now streaming on Peacock. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the final film in the trilogy, is finally here. Originally scheduled to premiere in February 2017, the delay is due to Dylan O’Brien’s on-set injury while performing a stunt. Given that Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials hit theatres over two…
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Film Review – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
I loved The Maze Runner. I come from a non-reader perspective of the film adaptations of James Dashner’s trilogy of young adult novels. I was surprised at the thrill and enjoyment of watching Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers find their way out of…
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Film Review – Learning to Drive
Learning to Drive (2014) is a perfectly acceptable, albeit bland comedy/drama. It’s unobtrusive and safe, with a good-natured theme of self-improvement. This is one of those instances were the plight of the characters are easily resolved and no matter what kind of hardships they go…
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SIFF Film Review – The East
Last year, director Zal Batmanglij and actress Brit Marling surprised audiences with their first original production together, Sound of My Voice, a film about a cult around a supposed time traveler. While it wasn’t on my top ten films of the year, it left me…
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SIFF Film Review – Frances Ha
Growing up is hard. Life is full of constant change; friendships and relationships come and go, despite our hopes that this evolution is avoidable. We want to live in a world full of the illusion that everything will remain in a comfortable stasis forever. This…
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Bird Watching – Ruba Nadda’s “Cairo Time”
Of the many reasons I wish I’d been in attendance at the Toronto Film Festival last month, the wide variety of films by women that were shown and celebrated is at the top. Six of the festival’s twenty gala presentations were for films directed by…
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Film Review – Friends With Benefits
Trying to have sex without the attachments has been a film favorite topic for awhile now. Just a few months ago, we had Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman try it. Now it is another attractive couple’s turn in the form of Justin Timberlake and Mila…
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