Thursday, March 14, 2013

Warmer by the fire

Brian De Palma lost between Carrie and psychological thriller. Overlong with tediously overlong scenes, thence hopelessly boring. Thumbs up for a true Spinal Tap spontaneous exploding though. Kirk Douglas as a gun-toting father and John Cassavetes as a one-armed bandit.

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In the harsh face of stardom

This was tamer and kinder than I remembered. The rock escapism of this fictional band called Stillwater is delightfully smoothed over what ...