Not Women’s Lib, but Women’s Libido in THE RUNAWAYS (2010)
Dir. Floria Sigismondi
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 4/3/10, 4:50pm
A genre film is a genre film is a genre film. The Runaways, directed by newcomer Floria Sigismondi, is no exception. The film is the most recent entry in the musician-biopic genre, a cycle that has included such remarkable films as Ray, Walk Hard: The Dewey [...]
One last thought on THE ROAD (2009)
Yesterday while I saw Up in the Air (review forthcoming above), they ran a trailer for Crazy Heart which features Robert Duvall in a supporting role. That reminded me of the character Duvall played in The Road. He was a traveling old man, similar in his positive morality to the two heroes of [...]