Jane Campion’s latest, Bright Star, details the romance between Fanny Brawne and the poet John Keats before his death at age 25. The film promised a chaste yet sizzling love affair, but for those of us expecting Twilight with verse, Bright Star falls a little short. Don’t laugh—we weren’t overreaching to expect vampires [...]
Everyone loves a good rags-to-riches story, especially if the riches yield from the world of haute couture, but Coco Before Chanel has none of the Sex and the City decadence or Julie and Julia warmth that a Chanel biopic suggests. Hers is the story of an orphan who goes on to be one of [...]
Director Nora Ephron was faced with a challenge when bringing Julie and Julia to the big screen, namely, how to make the movie interesting when both endings are already widely ruined. (Needless to say, there are no spoilers in this article.) Based on Child’s My Life In Paris, the film follows Julia from [...]
Even with a flashy title like Hurt Locker you won’t find a shoot ‘em up blockbuster here. Never mind the fact that a woman directed an action film; Hurt Locker stands apart from other war movies because it takes a different form than most. The rest have gripping, outrageous plots, whereas Hurt [...]