Your garden-variety romantic comedy is a nice girl, a nice guy, and, as Jane Austen once wrote of her characters, “after a little bit of trouble, all that they desire.” Everyone’s adorably quirky but no one’s overtly weird, even though humans are unquestionably strange. It’s surprising that not many filmmakers have the guts to craft […]
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Film Review: “The Rover”
Director David Michôd’s bleak, post-apocalyptic neo-western, “The Rover,” begins with a title card explaining that it takes place in Australia 10 years after “the collapse.” No more detail is given about how or why this collapse occurred, and it isn’t really necessary. It’s enough to know that all that remains is the dregs of society, […]
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“Iron Man 3”
Summer movie season has officially arrived with the release of “Iron Man 3,” the third (and-a-half, including last summer’s “The Avengers”) chapter in the story of billionaire industrialist and inventor, Tony Stark. The film continues Marvel Studios’ winning formula of picking interesting filmmakers for their mega-budget superhero blockbusters over more commercially viable (i.e. boring) options. […]
