There’s scope but not a whole lot of depth to “American Woman,” which attempts to make a sweeping and universal statement about one small life in the larger scheme of things. But Sienna Miller’s titular figure is at once too abrasive and too glam to be especially relatable as the Everywoman intended. Jake Scott’s third directorial feature in two decades doesn’t evince a firm enough grasp on the rhythms of lower-middle-class life in Rust Belt Pennsylvania to compensate for the over-dependence on crisis melodrama in Brad Inglesby’s script.
While offering some nice grace notes, the film feels too soap-operatic to meet the high bar of its more literary-minded pretensions. Unlikely to get the kind of critical support that would justify art-house exposure, it seems destined for quality cable sales.
We first meet Deb Callahan (Miller) past 30, and already waist-deep in the consequences of various bad...
While offering some nice grace notes, the film feels too soap-operatic to meet the high bar of its more literary-minded pretensions. Unlikely to get the kind of critical support that would justify art-house exposure, it seems destined for quality cable sales.
We first meet Deb Callahan (Miller) past 30, and already waist-deep in the consequences of various bad...
- 9/15/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
"Hairstyles are temporary, but family is forever." Magnolia has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Permanent, set in the 1980s about a young girl who gets a special hairstyle to fit in. The title is, of course, referring to the 80's hairstyle called "permanent", or better known as a "perm", with big Farrah Fawcett-type curls. When she tries to get this done at the wrong place, it turns out to be a disaster, turning her into the laughing stock of the school. Kira McLean stars as Aurelie, along with Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson as her parents, plus Aidan Fiske, Jane McNeill, and Brian Bremer. This looks fun, quirky, and charming, in a quintessential indie way of course, which is why it also looks mostly forgettable. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Colette Burson's Permanent, direct from YouTube: Set in 1983 in small town Virginia,...
- 11/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Turn Trailer. AMC and Rupert Wyatt‘s Turn (2014) TV show trailer stars Jamie Harris, Aidan Fiske, Gordon Price, W. Keith Scott, and Jamie Bell. Turn‘s plot synopsis: “’Turn’ is a spy thriller set during the American Revolutionary War. Based on remarkable new research featured in the book “Washington’s Spies,” [...]
Continue reading: Turn (2014) TV Show Trailer: AMC’s Story of America’s First Spy Ring...
Continue reading: Turn (2014) TV Show Trailer: AMC’s Story of America’s First Spy Ring...
- 12/3/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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