"The Upside of Anger," stars Joan Allen & Kevin Costner," with Keri Russell, Evan Rachel Wood, Erika Christensen, Alicia Witt, & Mike Binder - who wrote & directed it.
It had a $12M budget, it did just under $29M at the box office, which is criminal, but that's par for the course for Binder's lowkey personal films. They're a hard sell. They're funny, but they're not comedies. They're dramatic, but they're not Dramas. They're just fucking great stories with great casts & great dialogue.…
When I finally got a look at the people with whom I'd been laughing my ass off in the packed 2pm Tuesday matinee, I knew why the right wing temper tantrums about Barbie have not been having their intended effect - particularly, and most surprisingly (or perhaps not?), in the reddest of the red states.
When senior citizens, teenagers, middle aged women, college-aged men and women, and white suburban men on vacation in a tourist town are all laughing uproariously…
Saw it in IMAX, and frankly, I don't think there'd be any point seeing it in any other format. Nolan crafted this film specifically, deliberately FOR the IMAX format, and the experience is absolutely tailored to it. Is it a massive sensory overload? Indubitably. That is the point. We are dealing with the creation of a nuclear bomb, and everything that came after it - and, moreover, the mind that conceived and designed and built it.
To say I was…
One of the most visually glorious films I've seen since the dawn of the 21st century. Villeneuve and his DP, Greig Fraser, have created a cinematic feast for the eyes - and Theo Green, the sound designer, deserves equal credit for matching their artistry. It need hardly be said that Hans Zimmer's score is magnificent.
Every element of this film is exquisite - not least of which being the distillation of Frank Herbert's dense novel into a coherent and entertaining…
