I knew from the scene in Silver Linings Playbook’s trailer—featuring Pat (Bradley Cooper) waking his parents up at four in the morning in a shouting fit because the ending of Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms was too sad—that this movie would have a predictable feel-good ending. Seconds later in the trailer,
Author: Latina Vidolova
Skyfall Rejuvenates Bond Franchise
Judging by the amount of people I saw last Friday night at Laemmle, most of you who were going to see the new Bond movie have already done so. I’m guessing the rest of you don’t really want to go. Whenever I told people I was seeing Skyfall this weekend,
Movie Column: Cloud Atlas Reflects Human Desire for Connection
Cloud Atlas is a sextet; six stories with completely different genres, tones and content come together as a single unit. There is the 1849 seafaring and runaway slave adventure narrative, the 1936 tale of artistic ambition and damning reputation, the 1973 thriller in which a journalist takes on a nuclear
Movie Column: Seven Psychopaths
Irish playwright-turned-screenwriter Martin McDonagh (of In Bruges fame and with several Broadway hits to his credit) wrote and directed Seven Psychopaths, which came out in theaters last weekend. The main character of Seven Psychopaths is a creatively blocked Irishman named Martin Faranan trying to write a screenplay called, you guessed
Anderson’s ‘Master’ Has Mostly Aesthetic Appeal
I went to see The Master last weekend at the Laemmle, although not exactly because I wanted to. Paul Thomas Anderson’s last film, There Will Be Blood, seriously messed me up. The Master, inspired by the early days of Scientology with a disturbed ex-soldier as its protagonist seemed like it