We have come to expect mind games from Charlie Kaufman. Anomalisa certainly falls into that category, but not for the reasons of his other film. The situation he portrays is very much tied to reality. It is the way it is presented that messes with our minds....
?It doesn?t matter what I wear. It?s what I dream. They?re Lili?s dreams.? The Danish Girl opens in Copenhagen in 1926. Einar and Gerda Wegener (Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander) are artists who are very happily married. Einar is a successful landscape painter,...
Early in Trumbo, as Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) leads his daughter Niki on her horse, she asks him, ?Are you a Communist?? He replies, ?I am.? ?Is that against the law?? ?It is not.? Dalton Trumbo was one of the best known of the ?Hollywood Ten,? a group of writers...
?Those memories?they?re things, aren?t they?? Memories can be the things that keep people together or tear them apart. In 45 Years, a couple about to celebrate a milestone anniversary suddenly have memories brought up that threaten their future happiness. Kate and...
We are sometimes amazed at the depth of horror that marks the Shoah. Son of Saul shows us again the inhumanity of the Holocaust in a very personal way. The film from Hungarian director L?szl? Nemes is already garnering Best Foreign Language Film honors from critics...
?I just wanted to give people a reason to believe.? In Don Verdean an archaeologist and dueling pastors seem to be trying to find ways to bolster people?s faith, but it all finally boils down to feeding their own egos. We have to keep in mind this is very broad satire...
?You must love this?living in a camper on the streets of New York spreading Christmas cheer.? In Christmas, Again Noel (Kentucker Audley) works the night shift at a New York City Christmas tree lot. He has worked here for the last few Christmases. But this year he is...
Youth is a meditation on what it means to have grown old. Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Great Silence) says in the production notes, ?The question I asked myself was, how does one look to the future when one is...
Sometimes Christmas just doesn?t work out. In A Very Murray Christmas (directed by Sofia Coppola and currently streaming on Netflix) Bill Murray?s live Christmas Eve TV special is completely undone by a massive storm and power outage. When he and Paul Shaffer head to...