Day: May 11, 2015
Film Review: ‘Preggoland’
May 11, 2015Sometimes the plainest truths are nestled in the most outlandish absurdities, and so it proves in “Preggoland.” An amusing, extravagantly implausible farce that nonetheless makes a pointed argument about the perceived marginalization of childless women in modern society, Canadian helmer Jacob Tierney’s film shoots for the Judd Apatow-associated distaff appeal of “Bridesmaids,” albeit with a […]
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Film Review: ‘Alive’
May 11, 2015The title suggests something triumphant, but Park Jung-bum’s second feature, “Alive,” might as well have the prefix “Barely” — its protagonists are scraping by with cruel odds stacked against them, as in his acclaimed 2010 debut, “The Journals of Musam.” Once again, the writer-director-actor is compelling as the chief victim of perpetual setbacks, but this […]
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Film Review: ‘Applesauce’
May 11, 2015Image Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival “Applesauce,” Onur Tukel’s latest and most accomplished microbudget exercise in cynical absurdism, throws dismembered body parts into a couple of amicable marriages and charts the resultant explosions as paranoia runs rampant. This time around, Tukel casts his charmingly perverse, sardonic persona in the role of a high-school history teacher […]
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Film Review: ‘Luna’
May 11, 2015Image Courtesy of Luna Prods. English multimedia artist Dave McKean’s third feature — it would’ve been his second, had not funding woes greatly delayed post-production on a film that completed principal photography in 2007 — is a more personal project than his first, the Neil Gaiman-based “Mirrormask.” (Not to mention 2012’s relatively little-seen “The Gospel […]
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Film Review: ‘The Wannabe’
May 11, 2015Image Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Thomas Greco (Vincent Piazza), the hero of Nick Sandow’s debut feature, “The Wannabe,” is an aspiring mafioso. But the more desperately he tries to ingratiate himself with the mob, the more he creeps them out: After he hooks up with soulmate Rose (a magnificent Patricia Arquette), his kicked-puppy devotion turns […]
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Film Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
May 11, 2015Courtesy of Warner Bros. Thirty years have passed since our last visit to George Miller’s sun-scorched post-apocalyptic wasteland, and yet “worth the wait” still seems a puny response to the two hours of ferocious, unfettered B-movie bliss offered by “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The sort of exhilarating gonzo entertainment that makes even the nuttier “Fast […]
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