Director Rian Johnson’s Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano, and Pierce Gagnon is a violent, very confused sci-fi movie that had enough action and logical challenges to keep me interested for most of its 118 minutes, but left me confused and unsatisfied when it was over. The story moves…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is a sorry mess of a movie: self-indulgent, opaque, and pretentious. I’ve been a cheerleader for P. T. Anderson ever since I saw Boogie Nights. Energetic, bold, and outrageous for it’s time (1997), Anderson directed a great ensemble cast in a complex narrative that successfully conflated the history of the movies and…
For god, all things are beautiful, and good and just, but men have taken some things as unjust, others as just. Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? … What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the…