This is a film review from Patrice Bowman, who writes the newly revamped WEEKEND blog column: “The 21st Century through a Monochrome Lens: Re-examining Older Films.” Cinephiles place movies on that high pedestal we call Art. But some films utilize less highfalutin gimmicks to wrangle in more audience members. Some tricks have been absolute busts, »
This is a film review from Patrice Bowman, who writes the newly revamped WEEKEND blog column: “The 21st Century through a Monochrome Lens: Re-examining Older Films.” Watch her intro video here. When I’m actually able to watch television, I watch the news about 30 percent of the time. (The other 70 percent, I watch older »
“Silver Linings Playbook,” from off-Hollywood-center director David O. Russell, revels in its depictions of how life snaps between cringing and laughter. Yes, it will make you uncomfortable, but that’s only because it’s honest and daring in its pursuit of dramatic-comedic intensity. Due to a violent episode fueled by his bipolar disorder, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) »
This is a film review from Patrice Bowman, who writes the newly revamped WEEKEND blog column: “The 21st Century through a Monochrome Lens: Re-examining Older Films.” Although I can do without gratuitous sex scenes in my flicks, I congratulate “The Sessions,” an independent film by Ben Lewin, for attempting to do what many mainstream Hollywood pictures don’t »
This is the first piece in Patrice Bowman’s newly-revamped WEEKEND blog column: “The 21st Century through a Monochrome Lens: Re-examining Older Films.” Ever wonder what would happen if Barack Obama did away with democracy and became a dictator? He could finally achieve his dream of socialism (or fascism or whatever!) Alas, there are unlikely to »