http://grouchoreviews.com/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:40:09 GMT Film/DVD reviews, interviews and features. http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5285 /reviews/5285 Despite his film having prestige written all over it, Nolan the theoretical cineaste has rewritten the rules of the prestige picture...[with] his epic reconstruction and deconstruction of the Manhattan Project and the man who organized it. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5284 /reviews/5284 It comes down to the extended climax to make or break Dead Reckoning...and happily, the finale delivers with what could be the most impressive train shenanigans since Buster Keaton‘s The General. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5282 /reviews/5282 [Spoiler-free review:] Mangold has practically worked a miracle: an experience that delivers everything a fan should want from an Indiana Jones movie...Congratulations, Disney. I can‘t wait to get on this ride again. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5281 /reviews/5281 [Spoiler-free review:] For all its flaws, The Flash proves strong on character where it counts as it serves up its MCU-style comedy, tragedy, and wow-factor visuals...In the final equation, the Scarlet Speedster gi Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5283 /reviews/5283 This early slasher movie and somewhat Psycho rip-off is also an artful and unnerving gothic horror picture in its own right. [Blu-ray] Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5280 /reviews/5280 Offers too much sensational spectacle, melodrama, and high-stakes sci-fi adventure ever to bore its audience, but its echoes of exhausted blockbuster tropes ring hollow. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/484 /interviews/484 I think one thing actually that sometimes even gay people seem to forget about: there is something extremely sexy about being the only two people in the room who have a secret that no one else knows about. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5278 /reviews/5278 A political movie of religious intrigue, well-acted and directed with a good script and great visual appeal. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5279 /reviews/5279 A tightrope act to have a conversation about race when your priority is to get laughs. Great cast, but by its climax you feel like the movie‘s the hammer and you‘re the nail. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/features/265 /features/265 The Year‘s Best Films TIM SIKA (Celluloid Dreams The Movie Show) · TOP TEN MOVIES 2022 (PETER CANAVESE) CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (SCREEN SCENE) 12-29-22 1. Aftersun (in theaters & on VOD) In an astonishingly confident feature directorial debut, writer-director Charlotte Wells explores the coming of age of an 11-year-old... Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5277 /reviews/5277 History on film. Well edited, bleak...vital journalism. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5276 /reviews/5276 Charmingly and frighteningly nostalgic, touching on feminist social satire. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5275 /reviews/5275 Tonally shifty, overlong, repetitive and as history simplistic, but well-made and an interesting effort to reach across the aisle from the socially liberal to the socially conservative. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5274 /reviews/5274 A deliberately paced, bleak, and unsettling morality play that never really gets much traction, spins its heels, and ultimately fails to find a way to make its material interesting. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5273 /reviews/5273 Not as hardcore as the in-your-face, bloody, gory, sweaty, dirty, puss-y, oozing, festering, nightmarish 1987 original, but still honors Clive Barker‘s concept with a stronger, more-interested-in-world-building narrative. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5269 /reviews/5269 Brian DePalma‘s ‘earwitness‘ thriller may just be his best film…strong direction, a good script and self-reflexive in clever meta ways that were before its time. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5268 /reviews/5268 Pretty low-key but enjoyable enough medieval coming-of-age comedy boasts a cheeky, naughty sense of humor and a period story complicated by class and the limited mobility of gender. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5267 /reviews/5267 A sci-fi romantic light comedy anchored by two charming lead performances which is less interested in laughs than it is in presenting an allegory of damaged people trying to hold on to love and happiness. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5266 /reviews/5266 Marginally improved...and Midler, Parker and Najimy still play their characters with the hammy gusto of 1966 Batman villains. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/483 /interviews/483 It was so much fun. She was slightly, wonderfully over the top, narcissistic, and enjoys life. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5265 /reviews/5265 If you love movies, you definitely want to be in this discussion. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5264 /reviews/5264 A spirited, meta, frothy and amusingly arch mystery comedy for theater nerds with a snappy script and a smashing cast. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5263 /reviews/5263 Effective in its refusal to spell out diagnoses or adopt a specific analytic take. Instead, it invites interpretation. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/482 /interviews/482 [Martin:] I‘ve read that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, so neither Marty nor I could possibly catch it.“ [Short:] “Unless you can catch it through batteries.“ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/features/264 /features/264 The Year‘s Best Films 1. Memoria (in theatres TBD) Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s films contain multitudes. With Memoria, Weerasethakul invites you “to feel and to be in a space“ along with Tilda Swinton‘s befuddled protagonist. As she seeks to identify and explain a hallucinatory sound, Memoria parses dreams, curses, viruses, altered states,... Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/481 /interviews/481 I wanted with Joachim to have quirks and certain characteristics that I know from friends and people I‘ve worked with...I love him being over the top and flamboyant, but still grounded, ‘cause we all have a friend like that. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/480 /interviews/480 [Grazer:] I feel like Fionn, not only on set but just in life, showed me the ropes as like a brother would do. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/features/263 /features/263 The Year‘s Best Films 1. Vitalina Varela  There’s a transcendence to Pedro Costa’s filmmaking that earns the term “art film.” In this spinoff from Costa’s Horse Money, the writer-director collaborates with the titular heroine…a Cape Verdean in Lisbon…to tell her own story of seeking the truth about... Wed, 01 Jan 2020 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/features/262 /features/262 In tough times, we crave comfort food. Now that staying home is vital to saving lives…to doing our part to stall the spread of COVID-19 before our health-care system becomes completely overwhelmed…home entertainment will taste like chicken soup for the soul at the end of an emotionally exhausting day of telecommuting, teleschooling, o... Wed, 01 Jan 2020 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/features/261 /features/261 The Year‘s Best Films 1. The Lighthouse Robert Eggers’ blinding vision, set in a psychosexual landscape of a mind on the brink, has everything we go to the movies for: meticulously effective sight and sound, confident storytelling, humor and horror, dream and nightmare. One of the all-time two-handers, The Lighthouse pits Willem Dafoe&rsqu... Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese