Recently, I was washing my hands in a restaurant bathroom when “The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel started playing over the sound system. The man at the next sink, with a quizzical look, asked me, “What is this...
Title: Straight Time Year: 1978 Director: Ulu Grosbard Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Gary Busey, Kathy Bates, Rita Taggart Synopsis: Following his release from a six-year prison term, career criminal Max Dembo (Hoffman) attempts...
As with Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach makes films about himself or the women he loves. I tend to prefer the latter, and the realization that The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) would be both the former and a more self-conscious...
The film opens with a CGI deer. No matter how good the rest of the movie is, or tries to be, this film chose to open with a shot of a CGI deer getting shot by hunters. Not since the...
