By Anne Brodie Guillermo de Toro’s florid version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein gets the full CGI, over the top treatment typical of the filmmaker. It could have benefitted from a slightly less in-yer-face with some degree of naturalism, more suggestion than showmanship. …
Sally Kirkland’s Legacy and Passing, as New Doc Opens.
By Anne Brodie How heartbreakingly ironic that just days before the release of Sallywood, the fact-based feature on her career and bond of friendship with a fan that could have relaunched it, Sally Kirkland passed away. She’d entered hospice in Palm Springs yesterday for an unknown condition. She …
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Beauty or Porn? Beyond the Gaze Poses the Ageless Question.
By Anne Brodie Publishing feminist pioneer Jule Campbell is the subject of a documentary with a cultural edge, written and directed by her daughter Jill. Beyond the Gaze looks at the groundbreaking career of the photographer's decades putting together the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. The …
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Two History Dramas Based on Real Events Will Leave You Gobsmacked. So Will Russell Crowe.
By Anne Brodie A traumatic event occurred in high school when we members of the senior class were shown a black and white documentary called Night and Fog, by Alain Resnais. We were flooded by gruesome films and stills that taught us more thoroughly than any lecture could have - the irrefutable …
Emma Thompson’s U-Turn a Triumph.
by Anne Brodie Knocked out by the gripping new conspiracy drama series Down Cemetery Road starring Emma Thompson who also exec produces and Ruth Wilson; they play Zoë Boehm, a private investigator who runs a small detective agency with her husband in Oxford, and Sarah Trafford, a woman who …