If you’ve seen The Rental and were at all affected by it, you may never vacation the same way again. Specifically, if you check into a rental property — an idyllic, too-good-to-be-true, cliff-hugging property on the Pacific Coast, perhaps — the first thing you will do is inspect the showerheads. You will be looking for hidden cameras. Voyeurism is a central theme of Dave … [Read more...]
‘Aardvark’ too sluggish to make much of psychological premise
Why do screenwriters hate therapists so much? In most cases, accuracy and verisimilitude are important to a film’s pedigree, but that’s rarely the case when dealing with licensed mental health counselors. Psychologists in popular entertainment rarely resemble anything like their real-life counterparts — morally, legally, temperamentally. They’re either silent, judgmental … [Read more...]