MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION * * * 1 / 2
Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Alec Baldwin. Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
LISTEN TO ME MARLON
“A worthy tribute to a monumental talent. Riley cuts it all together impressionistically, at his best when using edits to suggest how much the actor’s father informed brutish Stanley Kowalski. If sometimes the loose-limbed film threatens to drift into incoherence, that’s also quite fitting for a story told by Marlon Brando.” – Movie Mezzanine, 07/31/2015
MCCABE FOR KIDS: ROBERT ALTMAN’S POPEYE
“There was no subject nor any genre that he couldn’t somehow turn into a Robert Altman movie. Other filmmakers tell stories, Altman created ecosystems. He built minutely detailed worlds, mostly governed by sadness and systemic corruption, and then sent his iconoclastic heroes ping-ponging off the walls of their limitations, often failing spectacularly” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/30/2015
IRRATIONAL MAN
IRRATIONAL MAN * 1 / 2
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley and Ethan Phillips. Written and directed by Woody Allen.
ANT-MAN
ANT-MAN * * *
Starring Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll and Michael Pena. Screenplay by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. Directed by Peyton Reed.
TANGERINE
“There’s a vitality and a breadth of vision that made most of the other movies I saw at Sundance this year look anemic, a feeling of community that sent my spirit soaring. Like nothing else you’ll see at the movies this summer, Tangerine is a lewd, madcap romp tempered with unexpected moments of sweetness and grace.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/16/2015
AMY
AMY * * *
A documentary directed by Asif Kapadia. Featuring Amy Winehouse, Blake Fielder-Civil, Mitch Winehouse, Yasiin Bey and Tony Bennett.
