The Italian Straw Hat (Flicker Alley)Release date: April 6Standard list price: $23.99In the movies and the theater, the institution of marriage is not often a melodious tradition, with infidelity and domestic strife serving as effective dramatic devices for more than a century. But day-to-day wedlock is downright harmonious compared to the ceremony leading up to it.Cinematic or … [Read more...]
Film review: Comic-hero sendup ‘Kick-Ass’ aims too low
Aaron Johnson in Kick-Ass. By John Thomason Oh, Kick-Ass. You so want to eat at the big boy’s table, but you’re just not there yet. “There” being the level of comic sophistication of Judd Apatow, Adam McKay and their coterie of followers, who have rewritten the rules of hipster comedy for the 21st century with a deceptively simple formula: R-rated gross-out humor mixed with … [Read more...]