Maria Malin/Sony Pictures Classics
MOVIE REVIEW
Third Person (2014)
Paul Haggis has again formulated an interwoven story with “Third Person,” this time finally resolving the contrivance inherent in the narrative device by having all interconnected vignettes conveniently taking place in one writer’s fertile imagination.
MOVIE REVIEW
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Screen Media Films
You’re sure to recognize Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn). She’s a pretty, devoted housewife, a regular at the stores near her Connecticut home. Her passivity — her devotion to the blandest of routines — blends her inextricably to her surroundings. They seem to have shaped every contour of her life; whoever she once was and wherever she came from buried beneath a sort of high-class suburban malaise.
MOVIE REVIEW
Towelhead (2008)
Dale Robinette/Warner Independent Pictures
There’s no point criticizing “Towelhead” solely for its
content – namely, the much buzzed about pedophilic subplot involving characters
played by Aaron Eckhart and Summer Bishil. As Roger Ebert so often notes, it’s
not what a movie is about
that makes it good or bad, but how it is
about it. In other words: It’s possible to make a good movie about pedophilia. See “The Woodman” and “Happiness” for proof.
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