Category Archives: Criticism

Alex has just moved to Rome, and is preoccupied. His temporary PR job and overbearing boss force him to adjust, quickly, to his new city’s customs. But more than the work, it’s love that unsettles him, a past relationship that comes back to haunt him. With his old flame Emily coming to visit, Alex broodsContinue reading “Book Review: THE LOVE FOOL”

As moviegoers, and more broadly as people, we tend to think of the word “ambition” in a positive vein. To say a movie has ambition is to say it has purpose; to say it has moxie is to say it breaks some new ground. On the flip side there are those seen as too ambitious, directors whoContinue reading “The Ambling Ambition of Magnolia”

Let’s talk about John Mayer’s voice. You know the one—those goopy dulcet tones on “Your Body is a Wonderland”, soft and sweet as taffy including all the leftover stickiness that makes you feel like you better go brush your teeth afterward. Mayer is inseparable from his voice, which might seem like an obvious point toContinue reading “John Mayer and The Nothing Search”

Alejandro G. IIñárritu may have done well just getting out of the house. Whereas his last film (Birdman) fixes on the stuffy indoor mania of Broadway stage production, this time he spins the camera outward, to the vast and austere winter, where its unyielding brutality takes hold. The Revenant follows the improbable survival of Hugh Glass, portrayedContinue reading “Wintry Discontent: The Revenant”