By John ThomasonFor My Father (Film Movement)Release date: June 1Standard list price: $22.49I normally reserve the space for the largest review in this column to wonderful films that are worthy of your time, but occasionally a film so indefensible – so patently contemptible – will arrive on my doorstep that it prompts the need to vent for more than 150 … [Read more...]
Film review: No ‘Doubt’ about the superlative performances
Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius in Doubt.By Hap Erstein Hollywood demands happy endings that will leave an audience reassured and uplifted. John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play — and now movie — prefers disquieting ambiguity. But if he has no intention of presenting us with the answer to the moral puzzle he spins (not whodunit, but … [Read more...]