Like Crazy is a love story about an American boy (Anton Yelchin)
and an English girl (Felicity Jones) who meet in their final year of
college in Los Angeles, fall in love and opt to spend the summer
together in the States before she returns to London.
War Horse is ideal material for Steven Spielberg. His adaptation
of the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo comes to the screen by way
of the celebrated National Theatre stage version, which has been
entrancing audiences of all ages on Broadway since last season.
This first feature by writer-director Sean Durkin, a big hit at the 2011
Sundance Film Festival, centers on an enigmatic character with a
minimal backstory. Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) is a 22-year-old who has
spent the past two years living in a cult community in upstate New York.
You might assume that an NC-17 movie about sex addiction starring the
striking Michael Fassbender and featuring rampant nudity and graphic
depictions of various sex acts would have a certain erotic allure. You
would be wrong.
Craig Brewer, the extraordinary young director of Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan,
brings his sharp ear for southern culture's tone and rhythms to this
remake of a 1998 pop musical (itself a remake of a 1984 film) set in a
small Georgia town. The problem is that the material is still Footloose.