Tag: Melanie Griffith

Stranger Danger in Lumet’s Troubled Romantic Thriller “A Stranger Among Us” (1992) | Blu-ray Review

One of the few misfires of director Sidney Lumet’s extensive and impressive filmography, his 1992 romantic thriller A Stranger Among Us finds itself recuperated...

The Disaster Artist | Review

A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...

Roar | Blu-ray Review

The sole directorial outing of Noel Coward arrives on Blu-ray, the infamously troubled production, Roar. The 1981 film received a limited theatrical re-release earlier...

Day Out of Days | 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival Review

Days Go By: Cassavetes Returns with Industry Commentary It’s a tale as old as cinema itself, the dismissive and apathetic attitude towards ageing women in...

Roar (1981) | Review

We Bought a Zoo: Marshall’s Early Eighties Oddity Resurrected In the annals of cinema, there are very few examples of entire film productions resulting in...

Working Girl | Blu-ray Review

Arriving for the first time on Blu-ray is the 1988 classic gender politics rom-com Working Girl. Famous for giving us Melanie Griffith her most...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zoe Cassavetes’ Day Out of Days

It's not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn't a home run, but an...

Automata | Review

I, Robot: Ibanez Saddles Asimov for Arresting A.I. Concoction Spanish director Gabe Ibanez makes an impressive sci-fi entry with his sophomore feature, Automata, an exploration...

Stand Out From the Competition; Alexia Landeau Toplines Zoe Cassavetes’ “Day Out Of Days”

While still an active member of what I would call a French-U.S galpal filmmaker clique, the name of Zoe Cassavetes has painfully been absent from...

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