Giving sacrilige a new meaning
Goltzius and the Pelican Company might be only the second (after 2007’s Nighwatching) of Peter Greenaway’s Dutch Master Trilogy, but it could be the end of the good will many of us extend to the maver ...
FILM REVIEWS
Boyhood is hilarious, distressing, moving and profound
Joyce Glasser reviews Boyhood (July 11, 2014) Cert 15, 165 min. The annals of cinema are clogged with biographies of famous heroes or fantastic true stories that have been turned into dull, disappoint ...
Men turn into machines in Transformers
Transformers: Age of Extinction (July 10, 2014) In the Transformer franchise, the cliché that men have turned into machines is interpreted as literally as possible. Giant robots, that transform themse ...
A disappointing film of The Year and the Vineyard
I did not see Jon Cenzual’s first feature, The Soul of Flies (El Alma de las Moscas), but soul is not the only quality lacking in his dire, second feature, The Year and the Vineyard, (El Año y la Viño ...