VELVET BUZZSAW is a tendentious morality play. I’m not sure if it’s meant to be an overly artsy thriller, a cautionary tale of avarice and ego or a particularly sardonic and gruesome statement on art, love, life and death. Maybe it’s all of the above, and probably it doesn’t matter. The upshot is quite simple: […]
CLICK to READ MORE...TOO LATE is a too-clever-by-half attempt at smart modern film noir, set in a particularly seedy (realistic) version of Tinsel Town. It is saddled with absolutely obnoxious, pretentiously interminable sequences of dialog which begin in the first scene and never cease. With a convoluted time-shifting plot, it just works far too hard creating an ambiance […]
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