A polished technical package lends considerable emotional weight to Supremacy, a siege/hostage drama shot through with racial animus that recently made its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Based on real events, director Deon Taylor’s movie connects largely on the strength of its solid acting and charged stakes, but suffers a bit from muddled plotting and a dramatically diffuse end game. Continue reading LAFF: Supremacy
Daily Archives: June 23, 2014
DVD Column, June 23
That Awkward Moment, another bro-tastic laffer which attempts to thread the needle between twentysomething sexual exploration and acting out and relationship comedy (read: accepted “male” and “female” genres) is an awkward mash-up, and in the end represents nothing more than a momentary, wholly understandable blip on the respective filmographies of its talented young cast. A naked stab at blended American Pie and Swingers-type antics, writer-director Tom Gormican’s film banks heavily on the ample chemistry of its players, to intermittent but largely unmemorable effect. Continue reading DVD Column, June 23