“Watched again today, the Twin Peaks pilot loses none of its hypnotic grandeur. Swaddled in Angelo Badalamenti’s gorgeous synth score, with foreboding bass-thrums occasionally making way for a recurring, cascading piano theme of faltering heartbreak — soaring into lonely, plaintive high notes before falling back into a busier, lower register of despair.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/27/2015
MAPS TO THE STARS * 1 / 2
Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Olivia Williams and Robert Pattinson. Screeenplay by Bruce Wagner. Directed by David Cronenberg.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY * *
Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Eloise Mumford and Marcia Gay Harden. Screenplay by Kelly Marcel. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
JUPITER ASCENDING * * *
Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Written and directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski.
“A micro-budget labor of love for Pacino and his pals, the film was shot incrementally in twenty days over the course of three months, mostly in the director’s own house. Screenwriters Buck Henry and Michel Zebede have stripped away the ickier elements of Philip Roth’s dirty-old-man fantasy while ramping up the droll, dark comedy of indignity at its core.” – Movie Mezzanine, 02/05/2015
THE END OF THE TOUR * * * 1 / 2
THE OVERNIGHT * * 1 / 2
MISTRESS AMERICA * * *
MISSISSIPPI GRIND * * *
WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? * * 1/2
KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK * * * *
DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL LAMPOON * * * 1 / 2
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF * *
AMERICAN SNIPER * * *
Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Keir O’Donnell, Luke Grimes and Sammy Sheik. Screenplay by Jason Hall. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
BLACKHAT * * * 1 / 2
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang, Holt McCallany and Viola Davis. Screenplay by Morgan Davis Foehl. Directed by Michael Mann.
