Posted: September 18, 2017 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Beach Rats, Bridget Everett, Cathy Moriarty, Daniella MacDonald, Dhananjay, Eliza Hittman, Geremy Jasper, Harris Dickinson, Mamoudou Athie, Patti Cake$ | 2 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Two movies have opened recently in which the central characters occasionally gaze at themselves in the mirror, not for narcissistic reasons, but as if trying to figure out who they really are.
Patti Cake$ is a somewhat zaftig, working class, twenty something, white female who has dreams of being a rap singer. At first glance this might seem a preposterous idea, until she opens her mouth and recites one of her hundreds of poems she writes every waking chance she gets.
Then she has the power of Maria Callas, a vengeful angel laying waste to her multitude of distracters. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 26, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Avi Korine, Cathy Moriarty, Chris Messina, Chris O’Dowd, Craig Roberts, Emma Roberts, Gia Coppola, Jack Kilmer, James Fox, James Franco, Jasmine Paige, Jesse Eisenberg, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Mia Wasikowska, Nat Wolf, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Palo Alto, Richard Ayoade, Sally Hawkins, The Double, Wallace Shawn | 678 Comments »
Palo Alto is about teenage angst and existential ennui, just like the Twilight series, but without the werewolves and vampires, though almost as painful to get through (sorry, but it’s true).
The story revolves around three teens: April (Emma Roberts), Teddy (Jack Kilmer) and Fred (Nat Wolf) who are going through the throes of finding themselves. Unfortunately, the throes they are going through are pretty much the same throes that millions of other movie teens have pretty much gone through in millions of other movies before this and dramatized in pretty much the same way as those millions of others that came before as well. Read the rest of this entry »
