Monthly Archives: May 2016

Movie Review: Big names don’t quite rescue “Mothers and Daughters”

As much as we all love “discovering” fresh, new talent, there’s something to be said for casting your film with, if you can, movie stars. They understand, perhaps intuitively, something about the camera, how to leap through the lens, make … Continue reading

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Netflixable? “Special Correspondents” pairs up Gervais and Bana with disastrous results

Suspension of disbelief is maybe the most important ingredient in drama — on film, stage or TV. We need to believe the characters, the situations, in order to empathize with those characters and lose ourselves in the story. That one … Continue reading

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