Robert Pattinson smells like sex…that is what director David Cronenberg makes clear in Cosmopolis, his new film starring Robert Pattinson as the paranoid corporate tycoon Eric Packer who is destined to fall prey to his own created schizoid demise. Adapted from the highly acclaimed novel “Cosmopolis” by Paulo Branco, Cronenberg’s screen adaptation pits Pattinson against […]
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‘ParaNorman’ Is A Meticulous Stop-Motion Animation Success
While it’s a cute and fun movie, it’s not for really young kids; ParaNorman is very dark, fairly scary and totally deserving of its PG rating.
Film Rave: The Imposter (Dir. Bart Layton 2012)
British filmmaker Bart Layton came across a story that appeared more fiction than truth. A 23-year-old French-Algerian man had stolen the identity of a missing Texan boy, some three-and-a-half years after his disappearance. A master con-man, Frédéric Bourdin was in need of a new identity, being wanted by Interpol for his crimes and finding himself […]
‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Is Darker, More Humanized, And Less Punchy
Director Marc Webb and The Amazing Spider-Man screenwriters have more than done justice to the Spider-Man legend; in fact, they may have improved it exponentially.
LA Film Fest Review: Bestiaire (Dir. Denis Côté 2012 Canada, France)
Denis Côté, DP Vincent Biron, and producer Sylvain Corbeil have created a singular (beast of a) movie with Bestiaire. Offered the chance to shoot at a rather tired safari park in rural Quebec, Côté decided to make an experiment, to find new ways of making images of animals. First of all, however, he gives […]