Movie of the Year?: Man of Steel reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

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‘Man of Steel,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Zack Snyder widens his view as a director with “Man of Steel,” taking a proclivity for creating startling images in the service of storytelling and using it to enlarge and expand the action. As a result, “Man of Steel” works as a compelling big-screen blockbuster because Snyder doesn’t treat …

Dud of the Week: The Bling Ring reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

By Armond White Sofia Coppola has finally made an interesting movie. The Bling Ring circles around Sofia’s typical poor-little-rich-girl subject by dramatizing that infamous group of Southern California high-school housebreakers who were fixated on such tabloid celebrities as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan whom they idolize, envy and then burglarize. …

DVDs of the Week: At Long Last Love and The Merry Widow reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

By Armond White Filming a modern version of Shakespeare is nothing compared to Peter Bogdanovich’s essay on themes from Ernst Lubitsch in the 1975 At Long Last Love, now finally reissued on DVD from Fox Home Video. At the height of his fame and popularity, Bogdanovich embarked on his most …

’20 Feet From Stardom,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com It’s hard to imagine another documentary this year that will be as uplifting, entertaining and moving as Morgan Neville’s “20 Feet From Stardom.” A sensation at this year’s Sundance festival, “20 Feet” looks at a group of people who normally don’t feel the spotlight’s heat – the backup singer. …

‘Wish You Were Here,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com A semi-jigsaw-puzzle of a story, Kieran Darcy-Smith’s “Wish You Were Here” bounces back and forth in time, while feeding the audience’s interest in an unsolved mystery. Even as it deals with a marriage hanging by a thread, it examines the nature of guilt and unveils new facets before finally …

DVD Highlight: MacKenna’s Gold remembered by Armond White

By Armond White As a teenager discovering the pleasures of widescreen Hollywood spectaculars, MacKenna’s Gold (1969) has always been a thrill. It is still is (showing on TCM right now). J. Lee Thompson, the underrated action director who made fascinating late-era Charles Bronson vehicles (like the remarkable The White Buffalo), …

‘The Iran Job,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Opening in very limited released today, “The Iran Job” is an intriguing look inside what Americans see as a buttoned-up and forbidding culture: life in Iran. Indeed, even as filmmaker Till Schauder follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard playing professional basketball for the Shiraz team, a newcomer to the …

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