Lost In Translation first published by Movie Gazette in 2003 Nobody does jaded quite like Bill Murray. Since his mid-1970s appearances in Saturday Night Live, his hang-dog expression and martini-dry delivery have always made him seem cynical beyond his years, and now that he actually is middle-aged, he plays the mid-life crisis like he was…
First published by EyeforFilm If good adaptation involves a conversation between artists that respects both the similarities and the differences between them, then Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the finest. It has been drawn from one of the slimmer children’s stories by Roald Dahl, but at the same time it is unmistakably a movie…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks It begins with Vincent McKenna (Bill Murray) drunkenly telling a joke in a bar – a locale which, along with his seen-better-days Brooklyn house, the Belmont Park race course, and the palatial Sunningvale care home – forms Vincent’s typical environment. It ends, as the closing credits roll, with Vincent sitting in…