The notion of Jake Gyllenhaal: Serious Actor might have seemed like a joke when he was making The Day After Tomorrow, but the range and depth of the …
Archives for October 2014
Review: Teller and Simmons soar in compelling but disappointing Whiplash
Whiplash is not about jazz. It’s about blind ambition. Instead of telling the story of a genius finally hitting his mark, it’s the story of a boy who aspires to …
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Director Damien Chazelle talks jazz and Whiplash
Director Damien Chazelle discusses Whiplash, jazz drumming, the bubble of big band jazz, and his approach to depicting jazz on screen. …
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Best of TIFF14: ‘The New Girlfriend’ is François Ozon in top form – whimsical, funny, thoughtful about gender and sexuality
After making his name with off-the-wall, usually black, French comedies like 8 Femmes and In The House, François Ozon has lately turned to particularly …
The Guest: Dan Stevens’ charisma carries a flimsy genre film
Fresh from getting himself killed off of Downton Abbey so he could explore other acting opportunities, Dan Stevens plays a soldier with a penchant for killing …
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Gone Girl: a feminist book gets watered down to a thrilling piece of pulp fiction
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more faithful screen adaptation of a novel than David Fincher’s film Gone Girl, which was also written by the book’s author, …