THE SHORT VERSION: 20th Century Women is a film about Dorothea, a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) as a good man, even though his father (literally) is out of […]
It started as an excuse; a convenient, believable explanation that justified the wounded ego of a wounded army vet. I doubt if Alex Cutter (John Heard) truly believed that his friend, unsuccessful gigolo Richard Bone […]
Randal Kleiser’s Summer Lovers is just further proof that characters don’t have to be interesting for movies to be made about them as long as they’re white, young, and beautiful. Take Michael Pappas (Peter Gallagher) […]
There’s only one scene in Fred Zinnemann’s A Man For All Seasons that might be properly described as “cinematic.” It happens early on the first 30 minutes or so when King Henry VIII pays a […]
“To dinosaurs,” the two old friends toast in the Vienna hotel. On the nearby table a record player pipes the sound of a Soviet anthem. They should be mortal enemies: the one a CIA hitman […]
The other night, my fella suggested we watch Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club (1984). It seemed like a great idea. After all, we have a canvas print of The Cotton Club hanging in the living room, […]
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