Downton Abbey is typical period-piece porn, with two atypical exceptions of note:
Author: Steven Strauss
Slowburn (emphasis on slow)
Has Elizabeth Banks ever been cast in a role that allowed her to utilize the full range of her skills?
Weaks
Art always responds, deliberately or subconsciously, to the climate in which it’s created.
Like, But(t)
Freaks will have to wait another day, because a newer release — about freaks of its own — has come a-knocking.
Oh No’s
Julianne Nicholson’s long overdue to get cast in an A-list star-making role she’s more than deserved for epochs.
‘Ms. Purple’
The parents’ short-thrifted, hinted-at backstory > their offsprings’ laborious, lugubrious stories.
Shark Tale
Remember when I mentioned last week how too many movies start too early in their stories?
Conventional Contrivance
A series of cinematic echoes, starting with the voice of After the Wedding:
Contrived Convention
In a Sundance relationship-drama wannabe, when a parental figure promises not to miss a tyke’s birthday bash, you damn well know they’re missing that party.
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