Without revealing a key plot twist, one ofThe Beach Bum’s concluding scenes involves a yacht being blown to smithereens in a fiery explosion — certainly a more visually ambitious and technically complicated sequence than anything the filmmaker committed to screen inGummoorJulien Donkey-Boy.Still, ...
In a twist on real life pearl divers,The Far Sideillustrates the seemingly more banal, but likely just as profitable, means for members of a community – in this case, Larson sets the panel in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa – to use their environment to their advantage: the p...