
Anesthesia movie review: getting unnumbed to pain
The beautiful performances and raw intimacy are definitely worth your time, but its wispy good intentions ultimately dissipate into thin air.
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
The beautiful performances and raw intimacy are definitely worth your time, but its wispy good intentions ultimately dissipate into thin air.
It was originally titled *Boy of Pigs*, which captures the near-risibility of a movie that attempts to conflate the sexual awakening of one lonely adolescent with so traumatic an event as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Two high school football players skip football camp for cheerleading camp. “2 girls. 300 guys. You do the math.” Okay, I’m doing the math on Fired Up! (opens in the U.S. on February 20 and in the U.K. on May 22). Clearly we are meant to infer — infer’s not too hard a word for … more…
I rewatched the first episode of the British Life on Mars [Amazon U.K.], which I hadn’t seen in a couple of months at least, before I tuned into last night’s debut of the American remake, and I’m both sorry and glad that I did. Glad because it reminded me that I’ll always have the British … more…