This is the theme ofThe Wandering Earth, a film directed by Guo Fan. The film is based on a novel by Liu Cixin and is the first Chinese science fiction film to become internationally famous. The film stars Wu Jing as the astronaut Liu Peiqiang, along with a number of other big-name ...
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire" is an ungainly title for a powerfully ungainly movie. Boxers like to say that a punch hurts less if you see it coming. I saw just about every punch coming my way in "Precious" and yet it still packs a hurtful wallop. It melo...
This is the first of two posts about the movie “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.” In this one, I talk about the impressions I got from the movie’s press coverage, advertising, reviews and word-of-mouth, and why they put me off the film. In the second part I’ll ...
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THE IMAGE is a disturbing, erotic, scary, elegant movie that probably only Radley Metzger could have made. Most directors of 'erotica' concentrate on gynecological close-ups to the exclusion of all else; Metzger's hallmark has always been to tell the story and explain the characters by relying...
“Guilty as charged,” he replied. “I love Woody Allen and he’s certainly an influence. But he’s like a savant and I’m like a dyslexic; he keeps up the pace constantly creating, a movie a year, while I seem to come out with them on occasion. But Allen often seems to break ...
ipad and other mobile devices as we relax takes us away into this different kingdom—that is, there are parts in our being that feels we are the ones in the movie and sometimes we even feel what they are feeling as we get caught in the emotional excitement. The effect of media does ...
The movie, on the other hand, takes place as the zombie infection first begins to spread. It also ditches most of the characters from the novel and centers around a single subject, Pitt's Gerry Lane, a former UN investigator who searches the world for a cure to the p...
Watch on Netflix Tyler Perry’s first movie is adapted from his play of the same name and features the first appearance of his now iconic character,Madea. Helen (Kimberly Elise) and Charles (Steve Harris) are rich, happy, and preparing to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary when Helen ...
“There’s such a thing as having too much going on.”Howard Moon fromThe Mighty Boosh. I am a big champion of the films of Jacques Audiard. When his eccentric Western,The Sisters Brothers(2018),was released I wrote a positive review and tribute to several other fine films he has direc...