making sitcom lemonade (Love Is All You Need review)
What starts out as conventional dramedy becomes a charming, wise story about making the most of whatever life throws at you…
Pierce Brosnan
best exotic Italian holiday wedding (Love Is All You Need trailer)
It’s nice that there are suddenly lots of films aimed primarily at people who aren’t teenagers.
I Don’t Know How She Does It (review)
It’s pretty fucking clear how Sarah Jessica Parker’s Kate Reddy does it. How she manages to juggle a high-powered career, two demanding moppets, and a marriage: She’s got a buttload of dough.
question of the day: Which will come first: a non-British James Bond or a non-British Doctor?
And what non-British actors can you imagine or would you like to see in either or both roles?
cinematic roots of: ‘The American’
In *The American,* George Clooney’s murder-weary professional assassin mopes around rural mountain Italy while doing one last job before he’s out, out, he tells ya. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Ghost Writer (aka The Ghost) (review)
This is what I am profoundly grateful for: Roman Polanski’s elegant, gripping thriller The Ghost Writer is not about teenaged girls, not in any way at all.
The Greatest (review)
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made a wise, insightful movie about family, grief, and how awful and how wonderful it is to discover that life goes on after someone you love dies.
Oceans (review)
The overall affect is most like that of a screensaver…
trailer break: ‘The Greatest’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Carey Mulligan and Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan? Nice. Yes, the boyfriend is Aaron Johnson, aka Kick-Ass. The Greatest opens in the U.S. and Canada on April 2; no U.K. release date has been announced.
Remember Me (review)
Quietly charming and coarsely handsome, a sensitively observed story about young people in love seen through a keen eye for the unglamorous side of New York City that we don’t often see on film these days…
