
Not sure why I’m surprised…
Cinematic Passion & Perspective
Part of me wants to title this post “What Took Me So Long?”. Alas, every once in a while I manage to miss out on … Read More ›
Perhaps the best way to explain the strange days we find ourselves in, is to tell an even stranger story. IN THE LOOP is a … Read More ›
The city Woody Allen wrote about no longer exists. It has been gentrified, homogenized, sanitized, and Disneyfied. At one point in the film while watching a historic building get gutted, Isaac says that the city is really changing. Well if he thought that was change, I wonder what he’d even recognize the city to come sixteen years later.
No matter how much time passes or how well you know the other person, love never gets less complicated.
To get off the ground in any of life’s adventures, we need to depend on a team. Be they family, friends, or tattooed freaks, few of us can get anywhere alone.
Director Steven Soderbergh has been following a “one for them / one for me” pattern for quite some time with his work. I don’t always care much for his “ones for me”, but when he comes back with “ones for them” as good as this, it makes it hard to carry a grudge.
It’s a good thing I kept away from learning too much about this year’s TIFF selections. Picking the very small amount of movies I’ll be … Read More ›