TIFF Journal: Gloria Bell
Fans of Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Chilean film Gloria may be perturbed to find the director retreading old grounds. Gloria Bell at times feels like a shot-for-shot remake with an English cast headed by Julianne Moore.
Fans of Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Chilean film Gloria may be perturbed to find the director retreading old grounds. Gloria Bell at times feels like a shot-for-shot remake with an English cast headed by Julianne Moore.
Fourteen years after winning a Best Director Oscar for ‘Ordinary People’, Robert Redford almost struck gold once again (four Oscar nominations but no wins) with ‘Quiz Show’. The movie is arguably the most a...
‘Hands of Stone’, Hollywood’s latest uninspired boxing melodrama, is a big, long, sweeping affair. Robert De Niro has a supporting role, just in case anyone considers that a selling point anymore.
Well, this didn’t go quite as I expected it to. HBO gives viewers a feature-length (roughly 95 minutes) final episode to ‘The Night Of’ that wraps up the trial and seems to answer the question of who killed Andre...
Plenty of television series (or in this case, miniseries) begin with strong pilots, only to have things fall apart after the first episode. That’s not quite the case with the second entry of ‘The Night Of’. Howev...
A new eight-episode miniseries for HBO (co-produced by the BBC and based on the short-lived British series ‘Criminal Justice’), ‘The Night Of’ has the potential to become the most talked-about show on the p...
The strangest major studio release last spring was Darren Aronofsky’s wacky ‘Noah’. In a perverse way, it makes sense that 2014 should wrap up with another ambiguous Old Testament blockbuster. Ridley Scott’...
Movies for or about children seem to be the theme of the week on VUDU. We have a bunch of kid-friendly flicks about princesses, teddy bears and high school musicals entering the stream, but the ones that interest me are those with...
Earlier this year, Michael Bay admitted that the 2009 ‘Transformers’ sequel ‘Revenge of the Fallen‘ “was crap” (his words). Of course, he placed most of blame on the Writer’s Strike, not h...