The old-fashioned star power of ‘The Yellow Rolls-Royce’
You really can’t beat the ensemble acting in current releases such as “Margin Call” and “Melancholia” (both of which I happened to see last night). It’s a shame that in this awards season, individual...
View Article‘Margin Call’: Demi Moore becomes a team player
Among the many wonders of the terrific New Depression drama “Margin Call” is Demi Moore’s coolly ferocious performance as a risk analyst at a major financial services firm that went over the falls in...
View Article‘Margin Call’ — why the Oscars should add ensemble category
If ever there was a movie that demonstrates the need for a best ensemble category at the Academy Awards it’s “Margin Call,” the fantastic 2011 Wall Street drama that failed to nab a single acting...
View Article‘The Real Thing’ back on Broadway for third time
Neither a hit nor a miss, the Roundabout revival of “The Real Thing” is a baffling, mediocre remounting of a Tom Stoppard play, about the mysteries of love, that won multiple Tony Awards in its first...
View Article‘Margin Call’ vs. ‘The Big Short’: no contest
The critical endorsement of “The Big Short” baffles me. The movie borrows the hyped-up style of Martin Scorsese’s “GoodFellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” but the technique wears out its welcome as...
View Article‘High-Rise’: the future in 1975
It took producer Jeremy Thomas more than 30 years to make a movie out of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel “High-Rise.” Thomas originally wanted to have Nicolas Roeg direct it, but Ben Wheatley has done a fine...
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