It’s hard to feel interested about Tarsem Singh’s The Fall given its long history of shooting going back to ‘04 or thereabouts. I don’t trust films that take forever to be made, and it’s hard to be interested in a film that showed at Toronto almost two years ago and generated no buzz.
Am I the [...]

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I’ve already described the great pleasure of going into a film that has a bad critical reputation and discovering that the critics got it wrong. For me, this most recently happened with Wong Kar-Wai’s lovely My Blueberry Nights. Currently boasting a lowly 46% Tomato Rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an even lower 29% among the [...]

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Evan Rachel Wood in The Life Before Her Eyes 
In Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman both play the same woman, but at different points in life. Wood is the rebellious 17-year-old Diana and Thurman is the adult, now a mother with a difficult little girl of her own. Besides [...]

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