There are some very smart filmmakers who would rather gnaw off their own hand than risk remaking a lauded classic, and then there are the filmmakers of Living. Director Oliver Hermanus and writer Kazuo Ishiguro have that rare mix of hubris, knowledge of film history, and love of subject that have led to adapting the screenplay …
What can one say about The Bookshop, a movie that stars Emily Mortimer, and cinematic treasures co-stars Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson? It’s a bit like PBS version of a superhero movie…The Bookshop is directed by Isabel Coixet, who wrote the screenplay from the classic 60s novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. In 1959 England, widow Florence …
There is a veritable autumn forest full of movies being given wide release this weekend with something for everyone, although most of them are not particularly good. Among them are The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans from The Hobbit, and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, …
