At the endorsement of a former advisor, took in this one for the sake of its worth with regard to the male gaze, et al. But does anything distinguish it…
Most film protagonists, especially of the sort with which viewers are supposed to sympathize, are neither morally perfect nor totally evil. Exceptions tend to fit into the former category, however,…
Andrew, this one’s for you. Having never seen Walk the Line and having a general distaste for films of the musical biopic genre, it would have taken and did in…
With a structure alone that sets it apart from the fraught-with-contemporary-failures category of biopics, Paul Shrader’s Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters is marvelous to behold, swelling with rhapsodic music,…
