Day: September 22, 2015
Film Review: ‘The Reflektor Tapes’
September 22, 2015Neither concert film nor behind-the-scenes doc nor avant-garde objet d’art, “The Reflektor Tapes” attempts to be all three at once, mirroring the musical hybridization that inspired Arcade Fire’s mammoth 2013 double-album “Reflektor.” But what worked for Arcade Fire most emphatically does not work for director Kahlil Joseph. As the Canadian rock band deftly fuses New […]
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Film Review: ‘Baba Joon’
September 22, 2015Courtesy of TIFF In this period of greater nuclear tensions between Israel and Iran, who would have guessed that Israel’s foreign-language Oscar submission would be mostly in Farsi? “Baba Joon” is a coming-of-age drama from debuting feature writer-director Yuval Delshad set in a Persian-immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980s. Although some may […]
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Film Review: ‘Belgian Rhapsody’
September 22, 2015Exuberant musical comedy “Belgian Rhapsody” from helmer Vincent Bal (“Miss Minoes, “The Zigzag Kid”) uses the fierce rivalry between two Belgian brass bands — the Flemish St. Cecilia and the Walloon (French-speaking) En Avant — as they vie for a European championship to send up the intractable competition between Belgium’s two language groups in almost […]
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Casting Net: Chris Evans, Jared Leto eye Girl on the Train
September 22, 2015The Girl on the Train could be adding two A-listers for its male leads. Chris Evans and Oscar winner Jared Leto are in talks to join the adaptation of the acclaimed best-seller. Evans would play Tom, the ex-husband of the lead character, Rachel (Emily Blunt), and Leto would take up the husband of a neighbor […]
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The Intern by Robert De Niro
September 22, 2015Writer-director Nancy Meyers has scored a number of commercial successes (including It’s Complicated and Something’s Gotta Give) by going against the grain and making movies centered on women and aimed at older audiences. These films have not always fared as well with critics as with audiences, and you can expect the same divided response to […]
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Film Review: Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in ‘The Intern’
September 22, 2015Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Behind at least one successful woman stands an older, wiser man. That, at least, is the chief takeaway from “The Intern,” a perky generation-gap fable that sneaks some surprisingly conservative gender politics into its stainless new world of online startups and amply product-placed Macbooks. Starring Robert De Niro as the […]
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Tracy Morgan eyes movie return in Fist Fight
September 22, 2015A day after Tracy Morgan returned to the public eye by stopping by the Emmys to present an award, the actor and comedian is ready to get back on the big screen as well. Morgan is in negotiations to join Ice Cube and Charlie Day in the New Line comedy Fist Fight, EW has confirmed. […]
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