Any couple considering attending a screening of Olivia Wilde’s racy new dramedy The Invite should be forewarned. For all of its effective humor and risqué dialogue, the film is a certifiable anti-date movie, part of a cinematic lineage of dyspeptic relationships that stretches back to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Scenes from a Marriage and Husbands and Wives. As in these … [Read more...]
‘Asteroid City’: Anderson’s newest monument to artifice is his most authentic
Perhaps the most amazing thing about Asteroid City is that it actually exists. For the bean counters who fund the movies, eccentricity and experimentation are rarely inspiring motivators to open wallets, as evidenced by the Sisyphean career of Terry Gilliam. But somehow, even though his projects have by no means been consistently successful, Wes Anderson has managed to crack … [Read more...]