Hawkes (Everest) performance is the selling point of Small Town Crime, a movie that can’t really put its finger on a genre. From a marketing stand point, Small Town Crime with it’s common, non-descriptive title, is ideal films for SXSW. Outside the festival, I am not sure who or where the audience for a film […]
There are more great elements working for Beatriz at Dinner than against it, at the forefront, Selma Hayek. Mike White’s screenplay harks back to the first time he worked with director Miguel Arteta on The Good Girl (2002). That was a snappy, bold, but honest story about relationships. Beatriz at Dinner is the same vein
It remains to be seen if director Craig Johnson is a one hit wonder following oh so wonderful film The Skeleton Twins. His follow-up Wilson, starring Woody Harrelson, is another quirky family film, but without the comprehensive structure. In fact, Wilson feels downright episodic, strung together in a way that pulls the viewer from one
No confusion in what you are seeing with this title. Of all the misleading and poorly appropriated feature film titles at SXSW, The Most Hated Woman in America is the most accurate. Writer/director Tommy O’Haver (Ella Enchanted) can’t take credit for the title, Atheist activist Madalyn Murray O’Hair both earned and claimed that prestigious title.
Another moderately predictable formula this awards season; transformative performance showcased in a by the numbers genre film. What genre you might ask, the white man wanting to make it big genre. Gold, inspired by a true story (but then aren’t they all these days) has similarities to The Wolf of Wall Street and a bit
Jack Black’s latest comedy The D Train is distributed by IFC, so you might wonder why is one of the former reining box office comedians opening a new film with a small studio? The answer is twofold, since Black’s recent films Bernie, The Big Year and Gulliver’s Travels didn’t produce profit and the “D” in