It was a movie that shouldn’t have worked. Who in their right mind would try and make a romantic comedy where the lead actor and lead actress hated each other? Who in their right mind would ask Depression-era audiences to…
Movie Review: ‘Furious 7’
This may literally be the first time that this specific combination of words has ever been uttered in the history of human culture: the seventh film in the franchise is the best. That franchise? The Fast and the Furious, that…
Movie Review: ‘Home’
But did you see the hair on Tip?–the delightful short curls that bounced and bopped and swayed with the slightest movement? I don’t think I have ever seen so much attention and love put into a hairstyle in a computer-generated…
Movie Review: ‘Get Hard’
I can’t believe that I honestly expected anything different from a Hollywood comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. For a brief moment, I had a glimmer of hope that the film’s premise concerning James King (Ferrell) a soon-to-be-incarcerated businessman,…
The Film Canon: Alice (1988)
“Now you will see a film,” the young red lips tell us, “made for children.” A pause, a break, and the lips return. “Perhaps.” Another pause, another break. “But I nearly forgot!” Pause, break, a piano ascends a major scale…
Movie Review: ‘Unfinished Business’
I wonder if Ken Scott’s Unfinished Business started out as a comedy; at least, I mean, the kind of comedy that it eventually became. There are really two movies at work here. The first one is a surprisingly earnest story…
The Film Canon: The Collected Works of Alice Guy-Blaché
Look closely. What do you see? It might help to squint a little. The footage is over 100 years old, after all. In the center of the frame is a woman in a light dress surrounded by flowers. By her feet…