Must See
[See “Entry from July 1, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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Whatever It Takes, directed by David Raynr and written by Mark Schwahn is yet another in the seemingly endless stream of movies which attempt to translate classic literature into American High School stories. This fad began in 1995 with what is still the best of its kind, Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Emma, by Jane Austen,…
Yet another pretend “documentary” that’s really just anti-war propaganda
Peter Mullan finds yet another scandal in the Catholic church, presenting us with movie nuns who are nothing like the ones in The Bells of St. Mary’s
La Ronde — or is it La Dolce Vita? — goes to college. Love may be elusive, but there is plenty of sex, booze and drugs to take your mind off the fact.
Anastasia, made for Fox by the disaffected Disney animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman was deeply depressing for me to watch—not because it is shoddy filmmaking but because there is so much obvious talent here employed in falsifying reality for no good reason. Of course it doesn’t do for one to be too much the…
