Tilda Swinton
Movie Review: Problemista
4.5 stars out of 5 I first heard of Julio Torres as an SNL writer, but it was with the series Los Espookys that I truly appreciated his unique, surreal, gentle brand of comic ingenuity. MAX’s penny-pinching new ownership canceled The Spookies after two seasons, but the very bright side is this motion picture written […]
Movie Review: The French Dispatch
4.5 stars out of 5Or maybe 4 out of 5, but, somewhere in there. As I’ve said a number of times, there are a handful of directors that I am absolutely crazy about, and Wes Anderson is one of them. Perhaps I’m too soft on them or perhaps I hold them to too high a […]
Movie Review: The Souvenir
3.5 stars out of 5 Two generations of Swintons? Count me in! Tilda has a relatively small role in this, but it’s all about her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne. She plays 24-year-old Julie who wants to make films. Ah, but not about her relatively comfortable existence; she’d rather focus on a boy in the northern […]
Movie Review: Only Lovers Left Alive
4 stars out of 5 Is this a Jim Jarmusch autobiography? An aging vampire who fetishizes vintage rock ‘n roll? I’ve been a big Jarmusch fan since college. His last film, 2009’s The Limits of Control, tested the limits of his faithful followers — there wasn’t much in the way of plot or dialogue. Still, […]
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