THE HAUNTING OF ‘NOCTURNAL ANIMALS’
At one time it was normal to tell a story from beginning to end; now, juggling a movie’s timeline has almost become a cliché. Yet in his second film, (following A Single Man) Tom Ford has not only mastered…
ONE MORE ROUND: ‘BLEED FOR THIS’
We’ve been there and seen much of this before: the story of a tough-talking fighter who doesn’t know when to quit, as befits his working-class New England family. For the record, writer-director Ben Younger says he deliberately didn’t watch…
LOOK OUT FOR ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS’
The success of this movie seems to have been predetermined by its pedigree (an original screenplay by J.K. Rowling—her first) and its promise of an elaborate new burst of imagination linked, however tangentially, to the wizarding world of Harry…
