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With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures...
...where pop filmmaking strokes are misappropriated incessantly to make up for a lack of depth in the subject material, Condon is not only using those techniques sparingly and effectively, but delving into classical Hollywood language and pulling out something that is totally unexpected...
...movie is not just less funny than the first, but also seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget’s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her way through mishap after mishap with an excess of charm. Sadly, in this movie, our everywoman, and, by extension, singletons everywhere, are turned into the nastiest joke...
...years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx’s almost...
...what makes this year different? Nothing really. Hollywood usually requires a major blockbuster drama or historical epic and one art-house gem, jewel, rhinestone or igneous rock to count on a successful awards season. It’s not that these categories aren’t around this year. The problem is that this November-December awards season, the love is spread out. We have two large-scale star-driven historical epics—Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes)—and a handful...