In the new Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris, the slightly fallen auteur returns to somewhat stellar form with a charming time-travel fable set in the City of Love. Having reached his peak in the 70s and 80s with such films as Annie Hall (a favorite), Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters (another favorite), Allen’s [...]
Wow! Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” which stars Brad Pitt as a stern, disciplinarian father and Sean Penn (a huge Matlick fan himself) as his son, has won the big award at the Cannes Film Festival-the Palme d’Or. Also, Kirsten Dunst, whose career suffered a bit of a slump in recent years (probably due to [...]
According to box office estimates, the film overperformed its opening weekend. That’s good news! Now perhaps studios will greenlight more female-driven or female buddy flicks. Yeah!
In Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids, Annie (SNL’s Kristen Wiig), a thirtysomething single living in Milwaukee, is at a low point in her life: Her pastry shop, in which she has sunk a great deal of money, has closed prematurely, a victim of the recession; her handsome boyfriend (Jon Hamm) is a jerk who uses her for [...]
Have you ever been somewhere–maybe a class, a party, a get-together, whatever–and someone will make the above remark when the conversation steers to favorite TV shows? Don’t you just want to throttle this pompous self-important idiot? You know why they’re saying this (if it’s true): Because they want to appear–desperately–BETTER than you, more cultured, more [...]
Rather than wait for the next review of a film that ostensibly targets women, I’ve been brainstorming feature ideas for this blog, one of which is to feature Q & A’s with women who work behind the scenes in film. Please let me know what you think and if you want to suggest someone I [...]
I know I should hate this film but I don’t. In fact, throughout the film’s running length of two hours, my attention rarely meandered from what was happening on screen. This is attributable to the fact I did root for the main character Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin of HBO’s “Big Love”), a bright but self-effacing 30-year-old [...]