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Lucas McNelly @lmcnelly is the award-winning filmmaker behind UP COUNTRY, BLANC DE BLANC, and GRAVIDA. Maybe you've heard of him. Maybe you haven't.
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Can it be possible to both love and hate the same film? Honestly, I don't yet know.
Do we care that the dream sequence is beyond the suspension of disbelief? Of course not.
Even for a period drama, the film has not aged all that well, but the story is a timeless one that cuts through the drivel and strikes a resounding chord.
A drama about adults and geared toward adults that doesn't insult the intelligence of its audience.
There are times it seems they're making love simply by tapping their feet. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
We're here to see Karloff's Monster lurch and grunt and beat people up, and that's what we get.
This is a great debut for director Jason Reitman, a gleefully subversive film that's a wickedly funny and fearless gem.
I assume the sum total of all these annoyances is supposed to equal comedy, but it turns out to just be annoying.
They may have all the money, but she has all the power, and with power the rest comes naturally.
Obviously Kong is a model, but the effects are done with such a sense of artistry, we get the full effect of the real thing.
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