While the nostalgic exposition pays dutiful homage to the original story, the gangbuster finish should satisfy the audience’s summer techno-lust.
MAN OF STEEL LINK
Category Archives: Film
MAN OF STEEL
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
“This is life—we are just passing through.”
BEFORE MIDNIGHT LINK
FRANCES HA
Friday, May 24, 2013
One of the best of the year. Finally Greta Gerwig gets her perfect moment.
LINK TO THE REVIEW
IFFB – Recommendations
Friday, April 26, 2013
There was a packed house for the opening of The Independent Film Festival of Boston with The Spectacular Now, featuring director James Ponsoldt and screenwriter Scott Neustadter in attendance.
The film, based on a book by Tim Tharp, is a refreshingly honest look at adolescence that, while built on some familiar situations, is held aloft by [...]
A Mockumentary Classic Part 1
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Teaching a Mock-Documentary class puts me in touch with some lesser know films in this wide open genre. Spinal Tap and the Christopher Guest films are only the beginning and best known. I would start with Land Without Bread which subverts and questions the authority of traditional ethnographic, voice-of-god style documentary.
The Dark Side of the [...]
PLASTIC BAG
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
While you are waiting for Ramin Bahrani’s new film, and maybe you’re not waiting for it at all, but nonetheless it is called At Any Price. I’m going to try to review it.
It is the best thing I’ve seen Dennis Quaid do in a while. It also stars in Zak Efron, who I [...]
SPRING BREAKERS
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Pulchritudinous and Preposterous My Arts Fuse Review Links Here
OZ the GREAT & POWERFUL
Thursday, March 7, 2013
My review with pictures at The Arts Fuse
or
Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful reinvents, references, and conjures up a prequel to the story of the Wizard of Oz, this time without Dorothy. Instead, the film traces the wizard’s path from carny hustler to the throne of Oz. Like Frank Morgan’s man behind the [...]