‘Promising’ is a dynamic, forward-looking word that leans hard into the future – yet in writer/director Emerald Fennell’s confident debut, the ‘promising young woman’ of the title appears to have become arrested in the present, or even in the past. Where her peers have gone on to professional careers in their field, or to happy…
First published by EyeforFilm A call girl stands by a bedside table and begins removing her undergarments. “Slowly,” insists Brandon (Michael Fassbender), as he takes in every detail from the bed. This scene, coming near the beginning of Steve McQueen’s Shame, certainly advertises the film’s focus on Brandon’s hyperactive sex life. He will be repeatedly…
The Great Gatsby first published by GrolschFilmWorks. In his first appearance in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, Jay Gatsby is glimpsed in the darkness, staring out over the Bay that separates Long Island’s West and East Eggs, at a flashing green light on the opposite shore where his old flame Daisy now lives. Gatsby is pining…