Jewish filmmaker James Kent looks at an embattled Hamburg circa 1946 through the gaze of a period romance adapted from a 2013 novel of the same name. The Aftermath stars Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, and Alexander Skarsgard in what wrings some drama out of much of which isn’t that convincing. Forgiveness and reconciliation are finally […]
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Gloria Bell
Acclaimed Chilean director Sebastian Lelio relocates his 2013 Oscar-winner Gloria to Los Angeles for a chance for consummate actress Julianne Moore (Still Alice, Far From Heaven, Magnolia, The End of the Affair, et. al.) to shine at the right time. She’s more than fine in Lelio’s Gloria Bell that could make a sizable dent with […]
Captain Marvel
Oscar-winner Brie Larson joins forces with astute collaborating filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as its first female lead in what on-line trolls have been causing a backlash. Nonetheless, despite the politics (read: diversity) employed by the Room and Kong: Skull Island actress, Captain Marvel doesn’t make for a winning unconventional […]
Triple Frontier
Long gestating project from J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost, Margin Call) reunites him with Oscar Isaac from A Most Violent Year in a heist thriller less concerned with dramatic complexity or characterization. An across-the-board slickness permeates Triple Frontier referring to the thinly populated multi-boundary area of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina that is threatened by a drug lord. […]
Climax
The latest venture from the rabble-rousing maker of Enter The Void and Irreversible is definitely an uncommon musical psychological drama with aural and visual, not to mention devilish elan. Gaspar Noe (originally from Argentina and based out of France) renders The Climax in paranoid, pulse-pounding fashion set in the mid-1990s with a mainly untrained cast, extemporized and […]