There are supporting performances and there are load-bearing ones, turns so essential to a movie’s existence that without them the whole structure might crumble to the ground. At first glance, Benicio del Toro’s Sergio St. Carlos might seem a mere sidekick, the buddy who gets One Battle After Another’s Bob …
HollywoodandFine.com I was engaged for the first hour of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” – and frustrated into raging impatience by the final 90 minutes. So – 40 percent? Not a passing grade. “Inherent Vice” squanders a strong start in an orgy of wheel-spinning. Perhaps Anderson is indulging himself with …
HollywoodandFine.com It took a Facebook communiqué from a friend, asking what I thought about “Savages,” for my thoughts to crystallize: “I was mixed,” I wrote. “Liked the action, thought the acting by the 3 heroes (and the writing for them) kind of sucked.” Which about sums it up. This film …
