…of nature over the brick-and-concrete complacency of the city, and because of it they see their baser sides come out crashing, churning, foaming only to recede again into the endless… View Post

…simply not up to the task of grappling with such a complex story structure. Based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the film chronicles Bulger’s rise to… View Post

…city. A college freshman. No friends, no aim, no direction. She knows she wants to be a writer, so much that she craves entry into her school’s most prestigious writer’s… View Post

…comic effect, whenever and wherever possible, creating a deluge of “comedy” unanchored by lack of human verisimilitude. There’s no rhyme or reason for Sandler’s explosions in Water Boy (even though… View Post