Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is Masterful, but Not Quite a Masterpiece
As Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) carves a swastika into the forehead of Nazi Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the American quips, “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” It was a fantastic curtain line, as well as the filmmaker’s clever opinion of his work. Indeed, for my money, that […]
How the Film & TV Industry is Starting to Really Get Teens
Hollywood has always had a difficult time portraying teenagers in an accurate manner. Granted, movies and television generally present fantastical lives of all kinds of people that don’t resemble anything close to reality. Actual doctors don’t get so intrinsically involved in their patients’ personal lives, cops don’t play elaborate cat and mouse games with suspects, […]
“The Lion King” Remake Tells Its Familiar Tale with Technical Bravado
How you react to the remake of The Lion King will likely depend upon your attitude towards Disney’s “reimagining’” of their classics library. Some will see their latest effort as little more than box office greed, a new way to ring up dollars off an established property. Others will view the studio more generously, tipping […]
“The Farewell” Is The Feel-Good Film Of The Summer
The Farewell, written and directed by Lulu Wang, has already racked up a slew of audience awards from various film festivals including Sundance, and it surely will be the feel-good movie of this summer as well. It tells a warm and biographical story about a family that has just learned that their grandmother back in […]
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Good Rom-Com at the Movies These Days?
Have romantic comedies lost their luster these days because romance is such an antiquated concept in a nation where one out of every two marriages ends in divorce or a quick Tinder date will do just as nicely sans the headache? Is the screenplay structure for them too evident in its ‘boy meets girl, boy […]
