For those who aren't immediately taken with the idea of a film that focuses exclusively on the meeting between two sets of parents whose sons have been involved in a schoolyard fight, Carnage has a number of further sells you'll want to keep in mind. If nothing else, the film is bound to be worth it just to watch Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Certain fans may be equally moved by the … [Read more...]
Thanks to services such as those offered by direct TV and Netflix, people are enjoying new movies at home almost immediately after the movies leave the theaters. While in the past we all had to wait for sometimes as many as six months to enjoy home viewing after a movie left the theaters, it is becoming increasingly easy to simulate a theater experience in the living room. With this in mind, this … [Read more...]
Even with John Cusack, who has a special place in my heart, Being John Malkovich does nothing for me at all. The best response to the film I can manage is to roll my eyes, and I find no redeeming qualities in it at all, apart (maybe) from a few bits of dialogue. Nevertheless, I do find myself in the curious position of being glad that a lot of people found something in it. Charlie Kaufman’s … [Read more...]
There is something different going on in a “children’s story” in which fairies are said to “fall down dead.” They don’t “go away.” They don’t even “die.” No, they fall down dead. This something different has been abandoned by film and stage attempts at Peter Pan for so many years that the spirit of the story has been diluted into near meaninglessness. As an aside, … [Read more...]
