It seems silly, doesn’t it? The image of a man in an oversized version of the most rudimentary children’s costume: a plain white bed-sheet with eye-holes cut in it.
It’s also one that, in the context of A Ghost Story, becomes strangely haunting.…
Tag: Rooney Mara
Carol is a transcendent plea for kindness and beauty
With sapphic romantic drama Carol, Todd Haynes confirms himself as a master of forbidden love.
In 2002’s Far From Heaven, stylized as a Sirkian ‘50s melodrama, he doubled down on issues of race and sexuality. Here, however, it all comes down to a single relationship between black-bobbed shop-girl Therese (Rooney Mara) and reluctant socialite Carol (Cate Blanchett), whose eyes meet across a crowded store one busy December morning.…
Pan is a wannabe Hook for the Avatar generation
For kids of the ‘90s, Steven Spielberg’s Hook is something of a childhood classic.
Starring the late great Robin Williams as the jaded grown-up Peter Pan and no less than Dustin Hoffman as the dastardly, mustache-twirling Hook — not to mention Dame Maggie Smith’s elderly Wendy and Bob Hoskins’ workaday Smee — it’s pure cinematic confection.…
Trash sits somewhere in the middle of the heap
