“More canned misanthropy from playwright Neil LaBute, who poisoned arthouse cinemas in the late 1990’s with toxic stunts like In The Company Of Men and Your Friends And Neighbors. LaBute’s schtick is all about men behaving badly, but there’s no sympathy for these devils. His work is just cut-rate Carnal Knowledge.” – Metro, 06/28/2013
Monthly Archives: June 2013
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
“Much Ado shovels mass quantities of iambic pentameter into the mouths of untrained third-string television actors, most of whom appear to have learned their lines phonetically. Not since Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet have I been so convinced that most of the cast had no idea what they were saying..” – The Improper Bostonian, 06/19/2013
SOMETHING TO STRIVE FOR: WHY WE DON’T NEED A “RELATABLE” SUPERMAN
“I don’t go to the movies to see my life reflected back upon myself. I always thought the most wonderful thing about movies is that they allow us to get outside of ourselves for just a little while, to experience different worlds and circumstances that we’d otherwise never know. Superman is an aspirational figure, not a mirror.” – RogerEbert.com, 06/14/2013
THE KINGS OF SUMMER
“An elfin, non sequitur–spouting sprite with oversized features and the haunted stare of a man 40 years his senior, performing physically impossible feats and uttering sentences in which key words seem to have been swapped out like Mad Libs, Biaggio is the most hilarious third-wheel comic relief in a teen movie since Superbad’s McLovin.” – The Improper Bostonian, 06/05/2013