Freud and Kinsey would have field days with Adore, a raging libido of a film from the presumptively provocative French director Anne Fontaine. Instead of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, the major players in Fontaine’s new sexual roundelay Roz (Robin Wright) and Lil (Naomi Watts) and Ian (Xavier Samuel) and Tom (James Frecheville) -- two mothers and -- gasp! -- their sons. No, … [Read more...]
‘2012’ a wretched exercise in disaster porn
Director Roland Emmerich is expert at conditioning his audiences to delight in human suffering. A purveyor of the most soulless brand of disaster porn, Emmerich’s lowbrow forte is the special-effect-hemorrhaging eradication of masses of ant-sized people, their exterminators ranging from aliens (Independence Day) to Japanese monsters (Godzilla) to global warming (The Day After … [Read more...]