All That Heaven Allows – And Then Some
In which Douglas Sirk gets away with subversive, melodramatic murder. His victim: the ’50s.
In which Douglas Sirk gets away with subversive, melodramatic murder. His victim: the ’50s.
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Music so brilliant, a man so fascinating, maybe the next doc made about his life will be the good one.
All the while, there behind him, within him, is the cold flint of war scraping relentlessly for a spark.
A tightly wound, slow-burning spy flick, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the kind of performance you wish like hell he was around to keep on giving.
It is not the scope of the filmmaking that makes Boyhood incredible. It is what that scope does to your brain.
The Zero Theorem may be one of Gilliam’s lesser successes, but it’s built on something, towards something — and that’s clearly better than nothing.
Everyone in The Abyss, everyone watching The Abyss should logically be dead.
Richard Linklater gathers up time and turns it into a movie you’re going to have to see.
In which, like the fabled groundhog, Woody Allen emerges to enact his yearly ritual: the presentation of a new movie.
I think this band could really make it big.
Joe Dante’s 1984 Christmas movie, Gremlins, is the funniest, bleakest, most horrific kids’ movie ever made. In fact it may be the only horror movie for kids I can think of.
In which Ginger Baker, the original madman drummer, is exhumed for our examination. So to speak.
The apes return, and I’m sad to report that it’s less than it’s cracked up to be.