The title of Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell’s latest work—Everlasting Moments—alludes to photographs taken by its protagonist. These images represent not only an independent woman’s treasured memories, but also the perpetual force that they, and art as a whole, encompass. Such a concept is made transp ...
This has been an awful year for American cinema. From hackneyed plots to rebooted classics, Hollywood won’t stop doing what’s already been done —with every intent to pin big numbers at the box office, but not to create something of worth. And if it’s not a remake, it’s probably adapted from a comic ...
Four years ago, when I first saw the DVD cover for Millions—a boy with a smirk on his face, standing under a downpour of money falling from a starry sky—I was far from impressed. It looked like nothing more than a British version of Blank Check, where a cute little kid stumbles upon “millions” of do ...
While the credits rolled, I heard sniffles all over the dark auditorium. Letters to God, a faith-based film released on April 9, screened before a small preview audience at Biola University. In a Q&A session after the film, an old man piped up, “Well, there’s not a dry eye in the place, and that ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia has quite a reputation. Critics and moviegoers alike call it long, slow, confusing, ambitious, peculiar, depressing—and rightfully so. The film has a 188-minute runtime, an unconventional plot, nine protagonists, a musical segment, a scene in which it rains frogs and ...
