Phoebe Cates as Sarah in Paradise is an exquisite teenage dream, fully endowed, in and out of the buff, even with that 80s do. A new Blu-ray drop surprised me—I’d glimpsed it in my youth on cable, with David (Willie Aames) spying her bare back through a breezy veil. So I felt I owed it to my horny young brain to give it a review.
But Willie’s ridiculous. The Eight Is Enough and Charles In Charge sitcom star sprints to…
In The Godfather Part II, Al Pacino plays Michael Corleone with all the joylessness of a tax auditor on opioids. It’s a story about a world wrapped in evil, and he’s grimly making peace with that. Don or drone, I’ll begrudgingly admit it works—his coldness is the point.
But Robert De Niro as young Vito? He looks about as much like Marlon Brando as Pacino looks like Paul Reubens. They don’t share oogatz—jawline, stature, nothing—and it nags like mismatched socks.…
In keeping with my apparent love for the overthinking trap, I’ll start out by noting how a “sweater” is a wonderful symbol for the wanton comfort the landowners in Morelos experienced before the peasant revolution. 🧐
But once in a while it’s fun to just watch a movie that’s immune from such tripe. I just love this movie for what it is— just dumb fun through much of it. But it also spoofs our sometimes shallow cultural awareness. And it…
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So, this movie is kind of like the plight of a Jean Valjean type character, but with Miranda rights.
The Les Misérables hero’s confession of “2 4 6 0 1” always stirs me, but this contemporary take eats at me in more of a Tell-Tale Heart fashion. Yes, I wanted him to take that grand moment at the end where he rolls up his sleeve to reveal the truth and relieve our collective conscience…
