For the sake of this review’s purpose, it would be senseless to try to persuade anyone that parenting (and motherhood in particular) is not hard. Spoiler alert: it is. For all the beauty and joy of seeing a child grow up, at times being a mother is nothing but a thankless job. With little appreciation […]
The Last Straw starts off with Andrea and Ervin Litkei’s achy “You Lied to My Heart” which previews the auditory engagement of the audience. Aviation images are quickly shot sequentially, first appearing is a blood mark on the counter then a bloody arm, and lastly an old decommissioned yellow telephone placed Off-Hook. What happened? We
In some cases, it has happened to you that you feel you already know a person well enough, and then you proceed to inwardly curse that person for having thought so. “How did I ever think that this is someone who is worth giving one’s respect?” Or viceversa – they were all right; what was
I have always been intrigued by Roger Ebert’s disappointment with voters and his review of the resoundingly unfavored film by Paul Schrader’s Domininion: Prequel to The Exorcist (Hackett imposed an inferior Tom Cruise – starring The Exorcist: The Beginning to appeal for wider audiences). It is rather bizarre to observe someone of such a praised
Beetlejuice again resumed the satanic sense of humor, bloody miracles, and so to say, breathtaking special effects of the cult movie. To be fair, the sequel doesn’t measure up to 1988’s standards because people miss the union of the cast nature and the wow-nee plot, which most likely isn’t realistic. The new supporting characters are
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Out Come the Wolves takes the age-old narrative of man versus nature and sets it in a heart pounding and bloody battle for self-preservation that is very illogical. The innocent enough plot features a reporter, his fiancé, and her best friend going on a relaxing retreat into the woods for the weekend to do some
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Close Your Eyes is in an altogether different league the last time a Spanish master bears in a film comes after a period of almost thirty years. It is with great slowness that a well-orchestrated but highly intimate enigma is revealed as would a master painter on an intricately planned canvas. The master’s resourceful hero