MAY DECEMBER reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Todd HaynesStars: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Chris Tenzis, Gabriel Chung, Elizabeth Yu, Kelvin Han Yee.This richly layered, melodramatic but deliberately ambiguous character study from director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, etc) is inspired by the real-life case of Mary Kay Letourneau, a 34-year-old schoolteacher who was convicted of …
DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Gus Van SantStars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Udo Kier, Kim Gordon, Beth Ditto, Mark Webber, Tony Greenhand, Carrie Brownstone.The late US cartoonist John Callahan is not a household name, and is largely unheard of outside of the United States, which makes this quirky and unconventional biopic a bit of a hard sell. Callahan died in 2010. Set in …
CERTAIN WOMEN
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Kelly ReichardtStars: Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois, Jared Harris, John Getz.Based on the 2009 short story collection Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It written by Maile Meloy Certain Women is structured around three stories that briefly intersect. They are all set in the small town of Livingston, Montana. …
