Tag: Romance
Love Lies Bleeding: Performances From Its Stars Can’t Overcome The Film’s Choices
Rose Glass has written and directed a few highly touted indie films, the most recent being 2019’s Saint Maud, and now she returns to multiplexes with a new Romantic thriller that involves drama, love, and violence. Love Lies…
Read More »Drive-Away Dolls’ Campiness is Mildly Entertaining, But Not Enough to Elevate It
While his brother Joel was able to branch out with 2021’s superb The Tragedy of Macbeth, now it’s Ethan Coen’s turn to take a run at a solo venture in the director’s chair away from their legendary partnership…
Read More »Argylle’s Twists and Turns Elevate It From Descending Into Total Cliche
Director Matthew Vaughn has returned with his latest action packed film. Argylle introduces us to author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) who writes the best-selling spy novel series of the same name about a secret agent who’s on a mission…
Read More »Fingernails Fails to Live Up to Its Interesting Premise (Sundance Film Festival)
Studies consistently show that our society is increasingly lonely and isolated. Even the young who typically are enjoying the romantic exploration and freedom that typically accompanies youth in the post-World War II western world are having less sex and less relationships…
Read More »Maestro is a Technical Marvel Paired with an Emotional Story of Marriage’s Complexity (Middleburg Film Festival)
Bradley Cooper returns to directing with a biopic about a famous musician, this time focusing on a famous, real life figure. Maestro chronicles the rise of famous composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) as he builds his musical legend alongside…
Read More »Napoleon’s Two Quality Halves Don’t Make a Whole
2023 has seen multiple historical epics grace the big screen as if the 1960s have returned. Audiences seem to be warming up to witnessing history unfold in theaters with the hype surrounding multiple pictures and director Ridley Scott’s…
Read More »May December Offers Surprising Nuance to Infamous Public Controversy (Middleburg Film Festival)
We’ve all heard and followed salacious and infamous cases of wrongdoing in the tabloid media, from OJ Simpson to Mary Kay Letourneau. In turning these stories into gossip, the real heinous effect on the lives of those involved…
Read More »The Creator Delivers on Spectacle, VFX Even If Its Themes Seem Familiar
Director Gareth Edwards makes his return to multiplexes this week with his sci-fi adventure film The Creator. The year is 2065 and the world is in the midst of war as the West is engaged in conflict with…
Read More »Past Lives Powerfully Brings Love to the Big Screen, in All Its Glory and Pain
“If you leave something behind, you gain something too.” Past Lives follows the connection between Na Young (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two children who befriend each other in South Korea but lose contact with each…
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Fair Play is an Explosively Thrilling Portrayal of the Deterioration of a Relationship (Sundance Film Festival)
Career or love. Increasingly, this is a question that faces many young professional women as they navigate modern American culture and find themselves feeling as if they have to choose one or the other. Trying to balance “having…
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