Cannes: Youth review
Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth is a gorgeous bauble of a movie: shining, beguiling, hollow. The film takes place in a luxury Swiss resort in the foothills of the Alps. Staying in this magnificent hotel, which is so extravagant it almost made me gag, are Fred (Michael Caine) and Mick (Harvey Keitel). These two old friends are well … Read more
Interstellar review
Interstellar opens with the introduction of a farm, and the imagery brings to mind such middle-of-the-road fare as Field of Dreams and the TV adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand. There’s nothing in this sequence that even approaches the bleak beauty of John Steinbeck or the great dustbowl poets of the Great Depression, though that would seem … Read more