Baz Luhrman

Jul 06 2022

MOVIES: ELVIS, CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE!

By |2022-07-06T18:35:12-04:00July 6th, 2022|Comedy, Drama, Movies|0 Comments

You don't need my input on the god of thunder, dinosaurs, minions, or yet another retelling of the Spiderman origin story (unless Timothee Chalamet is spinning the web). I do, however, wish to make THREE suggestions for movies that may have escaped your notice and which I hope you check out as soon as possible: [...]

May 21 2013

MOVIE REVIEW: THE GREAT GATSBY

By |2013-10-22T11:24:40-04:00May 21st, 2013|Drama, Movies|0 Comments

It's great-- once it stops. The first frantic 45 minutes of filmmaker Baz ("Moulin Rouge") Luhrman's  eye-popping, screen swollen, 3D, musical mashup of F. Scott Fitzgerald's mythic novel brought me to the brink of motion sickness. Then it settled down, and the dramatic interplay of these iconic characters, against the deeper backdrop of the American [...]

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