Tag: Dakota Johnson
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Materialists: “Hearts for Hire”
Celine Song’s Materialists is a satire trimmed in rose-gold sincerity, a glass of chilled Prosecco served with a wink and a dash of resignation. The film waltzes through the lives of people who treat intimacy as both investment strategy and spiritual wager, managing to feel both featherlight and faintly tragic. Dakota Johnson, exuding a kind…
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Daddio: Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson Take Us On an Intimate Ride
MOVIE INFO: New York City. JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi, the cabbie throws the vehicle into drive as the two head out into the night toward Manhattan, striking up the most unexpected conversation resulting in a single, epic, remarkable journey. REVIEW: In Christy Hall’s directorial debut, “Daddio,”…
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Am I Ok?: Growing Up Not So Well in Your 30’s
MOVIE INFO: Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces that she’s moving from LA to London for a job, Lucy reveals a deeply buried, long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy sort through…
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Madame Web: Gets Stuck in Its Spidey Sense
MOVIE INFO: In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future… and realizes she can use that insight to change it.…
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“Suspiria”: A Kinky Coven of a Film That Means Itself to Death.
The Luca Guadagnino remake of Dario Argento’s classic Suspiria shoehorns the holy trinity of horror: witches, the Holocaust and terrorism. Meaning so facades and reflects meaning that it becomes un-meaning, which in turn leads to malaise and boredom when a six act structure plus epilogue stretches three acts beyond audience patience and a padded two…