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True Detective, Ep. 2.06, “Church in Ruins”
The good news is that the so-called “orgy episode” of this season is not nearly as gratuitous and exploitative of women as it could have been in a worst case scenario. The bad news is that it is still pretty gratuitous and unnecessary once it is made clear what exactly the show is trying to accomplish throughout the party. More
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True Detective, Ep. 2.05, “Other Lives”
The only truly frustrating part about “Other Lives” is that if the entire season to this point had been even a fraction as good, so many of the acting missteps and story misjudgments could have been more easily forgiven. Much of what works in this fifth installment of the season are things that could have been easily fixed before filming a second episode after the premiere, which is all the more infuriating now that things are even marginally smoothed out. More
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Limping, Lisping and Lobstering: Escaping Yorgos Lanthimos’ Hotel of Purity
Back when Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos first clambered barefaced upon the international stage with his daring Dogtooth, quite a few hastened to mention its striking resemblance to Arturo Ripstein’s similarly self-contained The Castle of Purity, made some 35 years earlier. In the wake of his first English-language effort The Lobster, one might even go further and compare all that Lanthimos has done thus far to Ripstein’s film: the […] More
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True Detective, Ep. 2.01, “The Western Book of the Dead”
This premiere trades in the ritualistic and occult elements of season one for the everyday goings on of cops and criminals, depicting them with scenes that are overwrought with heavy language and meaningful glances. More
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Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell get down to business in first ‘True Detective’ teaser
It has been a year since the first season and fans have been itching to see what is next for the acclaimed HBO series, True Detective. Now, a teaser gives them a small glimpse into what this season has to offer. HBO released the first teaser for season two on Thursday with glimpses at stars […] More
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Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Justin Lin confirmed for ‘True Detective’
Following weeks of rumors, months of amusing memes and hashtags and Colin Farrell leaking the news himself anyway, HBO has finally confirmed that Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Director Justin Lin are signed on for the second season of Nic Pizzolato’s True Detective. Via Deadline, Farrell will play a compromised cop in a corrupt Los Angeles […] More
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Colin Farrell first confirmed ‘True Detective’ Season 2 cast member
Over the weekend, the Irish magazine The Sunday World featured an interview with Colin Farrell in which he confirmed that he will be in the next season of True Detective. “I know it will be eight episodes and take around four or five months to shoot. I know very little about it, but we’re shooting […] More
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Potential Powerhouse – How to Fix ‘Pride and Glory’
The procedural crime thriller, tales of murder investigation and corruption, a hallmark of hard boiled fiction from the 1970’s onwards, has tailed off. This is particularly frustrating when such a film emerges that should really have been a shot in the arm but was instead a bullet in the head. Step forward the hugely promising and ultimately disappointing Pride and Glory, a true Jekyll and Hyde. More
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‘Winter’s Tale’ an earnest, somewhat baffling old-fashioned supernatural romance
Winter’s Tale Written and directed by Akiva Goldsman USA, 2014 It’s interesting to consider how readily we accept the notion of true love at first sight in animated films instead of live-action ones. We more easily appreciate the Disney princess stories of our collective youth where a handsome prince stumbles upon a fair maiden and, […] More
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‘RoboCop’ remake merely forgettable, instead of being an outright misfire
RoboCop Written by Joshua Zetumer & Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner Directed by José Padilha USA, 2014 Paul Verhoeven’s science-fiction films RoboCop and Total Recall take place in different environments and eras, but share a similarly raucous, ramshackle, satiric attitude. These films are products of their time, filled with garishly practical effects and grimy, tactile […] More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 124: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
Wind’s in the east…mist comin’ in. Like something is brewin’ and ’bout to begin. Can’t put me finger on what lies in store, but I feel what’s to happen, all happened before. Oh, excuse us, we were just reciting one of our favorite underrated lines from Mary Poppins, the Disney musical classic that happens to be […] More
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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ a hollow reminder of what made ‘Mary Poppins’ so special
Saving Mr. Banks Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith Directed by John Lee Hancock USA, 2013 “They said only God could make a tree,” Walt Disney says proudly as he strolls down Main Street, U.S.A. in the Disneyland theme park, late in Saving Mr. Banks. Walt, as he prefers to be known, gladhands all […] More
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