Misleadingly titled "Priscilla" is a closer adaptation to the more accurately named, "Elvis and Me" Priscilla's recollections on her time dating and marriage to the hunk of burning love Elvis Presley. Sofia Coppola explores women's relationships with men, and how they end.
Now, I've known men who like Sofia Coppola, so I'm going to refrain from blanket statements, but strictly speaking Sofia is a female director for a female audience. When she envisions her movies she sees a group of…
A bad romance to predate all bad romance outlaw stories. An emotional impact I haven't felt for a film in a long while. There's something sweetly saccharine, questionable eroticism about the two of them in the wash of worry about where this will lead. Danger is always alluring.
Perkins plays both charming and suspicious so well, an unsettling prologue to a story we think we're going on and soon discover initial attraction is cosmic like two stars aligning at the…
A Proto-Little Miss Sunshine: unseen micro-budget family van ride story. Everyone’s idiosyncrasies and flaws comedically on display, subtle holiday feel goods of Seinfeld relatability.
Highlight is Liev Schrieber playing “smartest guy in the room” writer-type who loves indulging about his Kafkaesque novel and aristocracy. Parker Posey plays mostly blasé cool Posey (I’m not complaining) who chain smokes and has a weakness for said intellectual writer types (raises hand), and Hope Davis as adorable older sister tracking down her husband in…
I really love this movie, and not for the obvious reason, so here’s a little female perspective for you chuds.
Whaley is so incredibly charming as doofy outcast, never over-fixated with Josie, but relatable self-involved idiosyncratic Jim. Right on the cusp of the “mall movie” aka Clueless, Mallrats, etc. quirky shenanigans in the only place young people can convene after high school and before twenty-one. Includes intense flashbacks to the time I worked at PetSmart for the summer, not really…
