YOUNG GIRLS IN LOVE: Movie Reviews of God Help the Girl and The Last of Robin Hood by Howard Casner
Posted: September 21, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bryan Bratt, Dakota Fanning, Emily Browning, God Help the Girl, Hannah Murray, Kevin Kline, Matt Kane, Max Casella, Olly Alexander, Pierre Boulanger, Richard Glatzer, Sean Flynn, Stuart Murdoch, Susan Sarandon, The Last of Robin Hood, Wash Westmoreland | 2,276 Comments »First, a word from our sponsors. Ever wonder what a reader for a contest or agency thinks when he reads your screenplay? Check out my new e-book published on Amazon: Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, including my series of essays, What I Learned Reading for Contests This Year, and my film reviews of 2013. Only $2.99. http://ow.ly/xN31r
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The new movie God Help the Girl, writer/director Stuart Murdoch’s maiden voyage of a film, has, at its core, a group of young people who must be the best dressed teens on the face of the planet.
Now, I don’t know whether to call their style hipster, retro, throwback or ironic (or, as one of my college professors once had included on his multiple choice tests, e. all of the above, f. none of the above, or g. some of the above, please specify), but I do know that everyone on screen is dressed within an inch of their lives in outfits that made me think they did nothing all day but stand in front of a mirror, mixing and matching, matching and mixing. Read the rest of this entry »
WHERE’S THE REST OF ME: Movie Reviews of the The Signal and Night Moves by Howard Casner
Posted: June 22, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Beau Knapp, Brenton Thwaites, Carlyle Eubank, Dakota Fanning, David Frigerio, James Le Gros, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Malloy, Night Moves, Olivia Cooke, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal, William Eubank | 6 Comments »First, a word from our sponsors. Ever wonder what a reader for a contest or agency thinks when he reads your screenplay? Check out my new e-book published on Amazon: Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, including my series of essays, What I Learned Reading for Contests This Year, and my film reviews of 2013. Only $2.99. http://ow.ly/xN31r
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Two movies have opened that seem to have never heard of the rule that today your screenplay must begin with a grabber scene, it simply has to. You know, something that happens in the first ten pages that attacks the face and thrusts its whatever it was down your throat like that creature in Alien?
Instead the filmmakers seem to feel that the slow build, the taking the time to create context for the characters and the situation, the use of an approach that invites us along for the ride rather than assaults us, is the more effective way to go. Wow, what a concept. Read the rest of this entry »
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