Tag: James Franco

  • Kids gone wild in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers

    Kids gone wild in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers

    Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers was hotly buzzed about on release, but eventually settled down to a 63 on Metacritic and 3-stars-out-of-five on Letterboxd. Both of which aren’t great, but a lot higher than my personal estimation. This would be certainly not the first time my personal reaction to a movie has been against the consensus, […]

  • Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk

    Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk

    Any friend of this blog will know that I almost universally hate biopics. As I’ve complained in my reviews of Control, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and even Walk Hard, I believe that the feature film is fundamentally ill suited for biography. One seemingly minor lesson from college that wound up sticking with me […]