Film: There are so many major award-worthy movies playing now that a better-than-average film with a strong ensemble cast of box office names gets relegated to our digital art houses. I refer to A Late Quartet, a first feature from documentary maker Yaron Zilberman about an internationally known string quartet facing a threat to its survival when one of the group is diagnosed … [Read more...]
‘The Goods’ lacks it – and everything else
Contrary to what the deceptive trailers want you to believe, nobody who wrote or directed the new comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard had anything to do with Talladega Nights. That “From the guys who gave you Talladega Nights” nonsense stems from the fact that Talladega director Adam McKay merely produced this jalopy, which isn’t a fraction as funny as his own weakest work … [Read more...]