[3] April 4, 2012
By now we should be thoroughly inured to Meryl Streep’s transformational abilities. Even so, her Oscar-nabbing performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady [4] comes as a shock.
[3] By now we should be thoroughly inured to Meryl Streep’s transformational abilities. Even so, her Oscar-nabbing performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady [4] comes as a shock.
[6] In Martha Marcy May Marlene [7] writer/director Sean Durkin delivers a moody, almost unbearably creepy look at a survivor of a Manson-type cult. And along the way he gives us a new star: Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the Olsen Twins.
[9] A confession: Matthew McConaughey irritates me in most of his romantic comedy roles. But in The Lincoln Lawyer [10] we get the McConaughey I love. Here he plays Mick Haller, a fatally flawed character who oozes amoral charismatic and oily self-confidence.
[12] Just when it seemed the whole comic book/superhero thing had burnt itself out in a conflagration of too much money and not enough inspiration, along comes Captain America: The First Avenger [13] to make us remember why these movies can be so much fun.
[15] Michelle Williams does a perfectly credible job as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn [16]. But as good as Williams is, not once are you likely to mistake her for Marilyn. It’s a passable impersonation, but no one will ever fill the screen the way Monroe did.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-iron-lady-2011
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Meryl+Streep%22+title:%22Iron+Lady%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16759#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-martha-marcy-may-marlene-2011
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Sean+Durkin%22+title:%22Martha+Marcy+May+Marlene%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16709#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-lincoln-lawyer-2011
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Brad+Furman%22+title:%22The+Lincoln+Lawyer%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16641#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-captain-america-2011
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Chris+Evans%22+title:%22Captain+America%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16626#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-my-week-marilyn-2011
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Simon+Curtis%22+title:%22My+Week+with+Marilyn%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16415#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=6
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=3
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=4
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=5
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=8
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=9
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=10
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=11
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=13