I’m always nervous when there’s a movie with finely tuned period details and acclaimed performances about an important subject. It always feels like that movie is going to be cinematic medicine, an exercise in production design. Carol has those elements but is so engrossing, it transcends the superficial trappings of its construction. Therese (Rooney Mara) […]
As Franchise Fred, I am biased against prequels. I’m interested in stories moving forward, and going backward takes away what I love about sequels. Even after I wrote about that in a Freditorial, I recalled some prequels I liked. Oz the Great and Powerful worked mainly because it was an excuse for Sam Raimi to […]