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Tag: Woody Allen

  • Movie Review: “Fading Gigolo” (John Turturro, USA 2013)

    I can’t ignore a Woody Allen project, or even someone else’s project on which he is working, even if it’s only as an actor. And John Turturro is a good actor, even if I have to admit that I had not seen any of his previous films as a director (Who did?). Even the film’s…

  • Movie Review: “Magic in the Moonlight” (Woody Allen, USA 2014)

    Woody Allen is an atheist. He is a melancholic. And Magic in the Moonlight wonders if these things are related. It says that magic and escapism make us happy but are an empty happiness but that logical reality is a truthfully sad existence, one where the world doesn’t give us joys. But then it says,…

  • Thoughts from the Previews: June 5, 2014

    The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone, USA 2014) I’ve seen this trailer several times now, and the movie just looks like a total mess. It looks like it’s telling a seven-act story with no overarching point. It really bears the marks of a film being run by the novelist or people who don’t have…