“Misbehavior” tackles a large portion of London’s women’s liberation movement of the early 70s, beginning with a scrappy group that infiltrated the Miss World Pageant in 1970. Screenwriters Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe give so many of the characters their own point of view moments, that sometimes it’s unclear exactly whose story is being told […]
Writer/director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On) has always been interested in exploring human interaction, more specifically, strenuous relationships. Noah Baumbach gets a mention in the script, but it’s Woody Allen that Sachs unintentionally molds the framing and pacing of Frankie after. The assembly of actors is quite impressive, just seeing Oscar
What you see is what you get with “Brian Banks.” The title is as unimaginative as the film itself. Based on the true story of a man wrongfully convicted in his teens attempting to reclaim his innocence. Director Tom Shadyac marks a return to feature films with the sort of feel-good story that made his career in
This film comes at you out of left field. The basic story is interesting, in that a childless couple kidnapped a baby from birth, rearing it as their own. However, they’re a bit off their rockers and keep the child fearful about the outdoors and other people, and locked in a basement, which begins the
I would imagine this is one of the most difficult bestselling books to be adapted in the past few years. As we continue the 2014 religious theme, Heaven is for Real is the only one of the major releases set in modern times. Based on the book by Todd Burpo, a preacher in small town