If, like me, you are a fan of absorbing storytelling, gorgeous visuals, and an elegant and subtle camera, then you’ll love Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces.
It’s amazing to me how such an accomplished visual storyteller can also create such intricate, precise scripts, packed with verbal exposition, yet matched by visual [...]
1 comment Saturday 20 Mar 2010 | blogadmin | drama, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations, romance
Even before I took my three younger nephews (ages 4, 6, and 7) to see this somewhat frantic, effects-filled kid flick about super spy guinea pigs, they were quoting one-liners from its trailers. Especially funny to them was the sight and sound of one of the rodents farting inside a tricked-out, super-fast hamster ball.
1 comment Thursday 17 Dec 2009 | blogadmin | action/adventure, kid's & family, movie reviews
Director Isabelle Coixet’s artistry has progressed exponentially with each of her films, culminating in this gloriously gut-wrenching translation of Philip Roth’s novella (The Dying Animal). She had a somewhat invisible career in her native Spain, before making a minor splash here with My Life Without Me. I felt that film was vastly overrated, using manipulative [...]
0 comments Thursday 19 Mar 2009 | blogadmin | drama, movie reviews, recommendations
