As fun as a barrel of carcinomatous monkeys, Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is destined to be dismissed by audiences like yours truly. Not because I’m a man and Miss You Already is a “women’s picture,” but because it so proudly flaunts its endless reservoir of hydrogenated sap and eye-rolling ludicrousness, the kind redeemed only by the sleight of hand of its capable … [Read more...]
The View From Home 30: New releases and notable screenings, Sept. 13-30
I understand that Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs has been remade, with the Rod Lurie-directed film set to bloody cinema screens everywhere Sept. 16. It was only inevitable that a film whose shocking, graphic depictions of violence and sexuality, which were well ahead of their time in mainstream cinemas in 1971, would be mined and possibly exploited by a generation of moviemakers … [Read more...]