Tag: Marcia Gay Harden
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Drew Barrymore’s Whip It skates around conflict
Writer Shauna Cross and director Drew Barrymore’s Whip It is frustratingly averse to dramatic conflict. Rather than finding resolutions, or allowing issues to evolve in interesting ways, it skates around nearly every incident: Bliss’ (Elliot Page) love interest at first appears to have cheated on her, but in fact didn’t, so the worst you can…
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There’s Something in the Mist: Frank Darabont’s The Mist
Has writer/director Frank Darabont been weighed down by the heavy legacy of his first feature film? The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most popular movies ever made, if not quite (yet?) accepted into the canon. The Mist, after The Green Mile, is Darabont’s third Stephen King adaptation, so far only having made only one…
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Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch go Into the Wild
Like many young men cursed with a privileged life of education and time to think for themselves, Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) wanted only a vaguely defined “truth” and to not have to rely on anyone. Synthesizing his reading of Henry Thoreau and Jack London, he imagined for himself a life of self-sufficiency in the wilderness.…