Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar Takes Off On A Wing And A Prayer With The Silly, Sky-High Romp I’m So Excited! Pedro Almodóvar Flies The Frantic Skies In Silly, Sky-High Romp After the kinky, creepy quirk of 2011’s mod-goth masterpiece The Skin I Live In, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar returns to his campy, soap-operatic [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 01, 2013 Read More Please return your flight crew to their full upright and locked position.
Byzantium: Neil Jordan Returns To The Vampire Film, This Time With Chicks Neil Jordan Returns To The Vampire Film, This Time With Chicks Is it even possible to inflict a new twist on the poor, overly twisted genre of vampire thriller? In these postmodern times, we've [...] Jerry Cornelius \ Jul 25, 2013 Read More “Can you hear me now?”
Film Review: The Way, Way Back Familiar, Funny Coming-Of-Age Tale Is A Tart Popsicle Amid The Summer’s Usual Sugary Offerings Comedic actors Nat Faxon (“Ben and Kate”) and Jim Rash (“Community”) walked off with a couple of Oscars for their efforts screenwriting director [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 18, 2013 Read More
Film Review: Matrimonal Drama Fill The Void Shows Off The Traditions If Not The Inner Turmoil Of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Matrimonal Drama Shows Off The Traditions If Not The Inner Turmoil Of Ultra-Orthodox Jews First-time writer-director Rama Burshtein’s moody matrimonial drama Fill the Void takes us into a religious and cultural world so insulated few outside its [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 11, 2013 Read More Out of high school? It’s baby time
Film Review: The Lone Ranger How The West Was Lost We could begin by discussing what seems to be the elephant in the room—namely the controversial casting of Johnny Depp as (already controversial) [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 04, 2013 Read More “Train robbers? Where?”
Film Review: Chilling Germanic Crime Thriller The Silence Demonstrates How History (And Death) Repeats Itself Chilling Germanic Crime Thriller Demonstrates How History (And Death) Repeats Itself Northern Europe is undoubtedly a beautiful place full of very friendly people. But those Nordic countries sure as hell know how to craft [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 27, 2013 Read More It’s all fun and games until somebody gets horribly murdered.
Film Review: Brit Marling Gets Down And Dirty With Eco Terrorist Alexander Skarsgard In The East Brit Marling Infiltrates Hollywood With Philosophical Thriller In the course of just three small films, producer-writer-star Brit Marling has managed what few actors in Hollywood have even attempted: She has [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 20, 2013 Read More Chairs are for fascists
Film Review: Hawke And Delpy Return For Third Outing As Talkative Lovers In Before Midnight Third-Time-Around Romance Takes Long Hard Look At Life And Love With his amorous walk-and-talk films Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), writer-director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused) created something unique. On [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 13, 2013 Read More “Yeah
Film Review: Danish-Italian Comedy Love Is All You Need Finds Romance In The Worst Of Times Danish-Italian (And A Wee Bit Irish) Romance Is Beautifully Realistic When we first meet Copenhagen hairdresser Ida, she’s having a bad day—a bad life, really. She’s wrapped up post-mastectomy chemotherapy and is nervously [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 06, 2013 Read More When life gives you lemons
Film Review: Fast & Furious 6 Goes Nowhere Fast Latest Installment Of Car Porn Series Goes Nowhere Fast There’s a temptation in reviewing the sixth film in the successful The Fast and the Furious series to resort to monosyllabic caveman speak. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 23, 2013 Read More Yup. It all makes perfect sense to me.