New DVD Releases “Take Shelter” and “Sleeping Beauty”: art-house film takes on the recession
Australian filmmaker Julia Leigh’s erotic drama Sleeping Beauty, and Jeff Nichol’s Mid-Western epic Take Shelter on the surface bare few similarities, save for praise and attention at film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance in 2011. The former stars the excellent Emily Browning as struggling university student Lucy in Sydney, flitting between temping jobs and...
Film Review : The Descendants
It’s interesting that George Clooney, one of the few Hollywood actors with no interest in having kids, has won so many awards for playing a father. Most surprising is how well in fact he plays this role: for someone of his fame, being showered with praise in the media wasn’t enough to convince me...
