question of the weekend: do you listen to a film’s score or soundtrack before you’ve seen the film?
I suppose it’s not out of the question, but I can’t imagine getting really caught up in a movie’s music until I actually see the movie.
Month: September 2021
The Many Saints of Newark movie review: far from heaven
The performances are terrific, the evocation of the period striking, but it feels redundant, more GoodFellas-lite than The Sopranos, and with several TV seasons’ worth of story crammed in.
question of the weekend: do you miss video-rental stores?
If you’re too young to have had experienced them, what do you imagine you might have missed?
The Card Counter movie review: unnatural stillness at the center of the storm
Grim, mysterious, and unsettling, never more so than when it is quiet and still. But a brutality lurks below its calm, slick surface. Oscar Isaac’s performance is a work of astonishing minimalism.
Copilot movie review: how love warps women’s lives
Tragic anti-romance uses cinematic conventions and the presumptions of fiction to disorient us. Bursts the bubble of a certain kind of movie delusion to highlight a harsh reality of women’s lives.
question of the weekend: what movie do you most associate with autumn?
Maybe it’s a film set in the autumn, or maybe there’s some other association for you.
Cinderella (2021) movie review: from the ashes…
Fairy tale goes jukebox musical with a feminist, gender-fluid spin. Throws irony and sarcasm at heterosexuality, patriarchy, even monarchy. Pretty darn fun, with a sweetly spunky Ella in Cabello.
