Nothing Primitive About These Savages: Drama of Dad’s Dementia

THE SAVAGES
Running Time 115 minutes
Written and
directed by Tamara Jenkins
Starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman

In The Savages, a perfectly modulated and devastatingly on-target film about the dreaded moment of truth when children are forced to face their parents’ mortality, sibling rivalry does not eventually graft into Read More

Orwell’s Capitalist Fool Shrinks on Screen

Robert Bierman’s A Merry War , based on George Orwell’s 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying , turns out to be a labor of love that fails to capture the paradoxes and peculiarities of Orwell’s uncannily prophetic vision. Even so, Mr. Bierman and screenwriter Alan Plater are to be commended for making the effort at Read More