Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provides a warm, period look for this movie, which is saturated with subdued color, and makes good rhetorical use of the rugged landscape.
Author Archives: A. Mary Murphy
A. Mary Murphy
A Nightmarish Fling with The Last King of Scotland; A Dose of Twilight Sleep in Dreamgirls
Two Film Reviews by A. Mary Murphy
Posted in Film Reviews Tagged Dreamgirls, Eddie Murphy, Forest Whitaker, Idi Amin, Last King of Scotland
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Her Majesty, The Queen
Helen Mirren has the goods to be the queen – all the others merely players in her court.
Posted in Film Reviews Tagged Biography, Drama, Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Michael Sheen, The Queen
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On the Road with Little Miss Sunshine
The ensemble cast of Little Miss Sunshine embraces the absurdity of family life, from Proust to pornography.
Posted in Film Reviews Tagged Alan Arkin, Comedy, Drama, Greg Kinnear, Homosexuality, Little Miss Sunshine, Pornography, Proust, Steve Carell, Toni Collette
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