If the worst case scenario is a female driven Heat, that would still be worth doing. There’s more than that going on in Destroyer but if “Female Heat” can get people in the door, that’s already a plus. Det. Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) shows up at a crime scene hungover and staggering. The case she […]
A Werner Herzog movie can go either way, and there’s always hope that even a failure can be magnificent. It wasn’t promising to learn that the U.S. cut of Queen of the Desert would be shorter than the one screened in Berlin, so I already steeled myself for the latter variety. Unfortunately Queen of the […]
I did not see the 2009 Spanish language film El Secreto de Sus Ojos. I went into the American Secret in Their Eyes fresh and I would have assumed I was watching a literal English translation re-enactment of the film. I couldn’t imagine anything would be done differently until people started telling me there were […]