“The Great and Powerful Oz” is a Disneyfied downfall compared to the 1939 classic. Big names like James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams bring clout to the release but turn out flat characters overshadowed by the extraneous use of CGI. Read More…
After a 12-year hiatus, director Terence Davies adapts Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play “The Deep Blue Sea” into an operatic glimpse at a woman’s disillusionment with a world unable to reciprocate the nuclear love that’s sprouted within her. The film begins with a suicide attempt by Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the Read More…
It’s not “nostalgia” for a cinema of the past that haunts “The Deep Blue Sea,” director Terence Davies explained, but a “yearning.” That purely cinematic ache pulsing through the British auteur’s latest film, a hushed, melancholy exploration of love through the eyes of the impossibly romantic Hester (Rachel Weisz), is Read More…
The dream house in “Dream House” is hardly a dream house. It’s actually pretty mediocre. A two-story cottage tucked in the sleepy snow of New England suburbs, filled with secret histories and haunted antechambers — it’s the stuff of Thomas Kinkade’s nightmares. But Will (Daniel Craig) and Libby (Rachel Weisz) Read More…
