My review of Fred Astaire’s TV specials, only available on YouTube, is up at the not entirely safe for work Bright Lights Film Journal. I have additional reviews of The Hunger Games and High Noon. Links to my reviews of Fred Astaire’s 27 dancing films can be found here.
Tag: Hunger Games
The unerring perceptions of David Denby
In his current review of The Hunger Games in the New Yorker, Dave describes Liam Hemsworth as looking “like a larger Taylor Lautner.” This is funnier if, like me, you don’t know who either of these people are. As for the film itself, Dave struggles bravely, yet uselessly, against its ineluctable unavoidability. Leo DiCaprio, move…