curated: why does “separate the art from the artist” only ever apply to white men?
(I think we know the reason…)
(I think we know the reason…)
Collected from my new @flickfilosopher Twitter feed…
Now updated with winners…
Moonlight wins big…
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
What the fuck is wrong with men?
See this for Casey Affleck: he exudes a classic cinematic masculinity here. Alas, the rest of the film is old-fashioned in ways that are downright stodgy.
How did a genre-smashing director make a heist thriller so generic, with characters too unlikable to be engaging but not twisted enough to be intriguing?
A pungent reek of testosterone stinks up this high-toned apologetic for vigilantism and revenge. Still: great performances! (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.