I silently killed the last guardians of the last seductive galaxy

  Kill Your Darlings (2013) Naive freshman Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) enrolls at Columbia University where he meets Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Edie Parker (Elizabeth Olsen). Carr bribes an older man, David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) to write his papers by promising sexual favors, but when he grows bored with… Continue reading I silently killed the last guardians of the last seductive galaxy

The hot and stormy place

  The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) Romina (Eva Mendes) visits her ex-lover, motorcycle stuntman Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) to casually tell him he’s the father of her child.  She’s shocked and disappointed to find Luke wants to be a part of the child’s life. If movies have taught us nothing else, we know motorcycle drivers… Continue reading The hot and stormy place

In prison; escaping from prison; going to prison

  Caesar Must Die (2012) This film about prisoners in an Italian suburb staging a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar won the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. The director used actual prisoners in the cast, which makes the film interesting, but it didn’t do anything for me.     The Last Stand (2013) Ray… Continue reading In prison; escaping from prison; going to prison