It takes a very special film to leave you stunned in your seat whilst the credits roll, collecting your thoughts in the dark, not quite ready to rejoin the outside world. With a plot that’s relatively simple, and a brisk ninety minute run time "You Were Never Really Here" provides quite the gut-punch. Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe, a bearded shuffling monolith with a performance that challenges the audience, provoking fear, sympathy, and condemnation in equal measure.
Matching the subtleties of…
The title says it all: Quentin Tarantino has made his own version of a fairy tale, full of archetypes and staples of the children’s stories we were read at bedtime. The valiant heroes, the evil villain, and the journey everyone must take to receive their just deserts – all of it is blended smoothly into a terrific-tasting mélange with his unmistakable flair. However, this is a different side of Tarantino we’re seeing here, as it’s a more introspective. Yes, his…
Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman star as three Gaylord sisters –Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna ‘Susie’ Gaylord – who are in a fight to save their New York City Fifth Avenue mansion home from a real estate developer (George Brent.) Family secrets are revealed that required some clever tiptoeing around the Hays office. The struggle parallels the real-life real estate squabbles between the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers over the land that eventually became Rockefeller Center. Guess you know who…
A messy comedy that is saved, somewhat, by its cast, "Splitting Heirs" has a pretty energetic first act before a slow decline into mediocrity. Rick Moranis is good, if a bit miscast, as the genial, ugly American who in the heir of a British Lord. Eric Idle, who also wrote the screenplay, plays the reticent, decent, bumbling, gawky Englishman who befriends him. As Moranis' nymphomaniac mother, Barbara Hershey steals the show with her fearless performance. In one of her first…
This sequel takes everything that worked in Tony Scott's original and turns the volume up to 11. The result is a film that is a nod to nostalgia while introducing new set of heroes with amazing technical prowess delivering an emotionally satisfying and pulse-pounding ride. It's the rare sequel to arrive decades after the original that is not only better but also brings a richness to the first film.
Harrison Ford gives a nuanced, credible performance as a ground-down old grump who isn’t really comfortable in that hat anymore. In fact, Indiana Jones must be given his "adventuring costume" by his old friend Sallah. He is the reluctant adventurer. This is an Indiana Jones who has lost quite a lot. He is repeatedly upset when old colleagues and friends are killed while everyone else has no time for mourning or caring and just wants to get on with the…
