Month: May 2002

I haven’t read V.S. Naipaul’s novel, but I’m shocked to learn that it clocks in at a slim 224 pages — this film adaptation has the feel of a huge, sprawling novel too greatly condensed. Director Ismail Merchant — one half of Merchant-Ivory — and screenwriter Caryl Phillips cram the tale of Ganesh (Aasif Mandvi) … more…

Ugh. Woody Allen has officially become unbearable with Hollywood Ending. The icky, uncomfortable, skirt-chasing dotage into which he began to sink in last year’s The Curse of the Jade Scorpion continues unabated here, and it’s compounded by a blatant disregard for logic, humor, or character development when such might take the focus off Woody himself.