Freed at last, as moviedom’s favorite boy-beats-girl franchise draws to a halting climax. Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana (Dakota Johnson) tie the knot, but audiences anticipating auto-eroticism are soon asphyxiated by 90 minutes of panoramic pans across exotic locales. Add to this a few yawn-generating softcore spankings before closing on …
A marathon worth running... from.
While on a short layover in Paris, American writer James Lord agrees to be subject of Alberto Giacometti’s titular swan-sketch. What stars as a short stay plays out into an extended yawn. Stanley Tucci steps behind the camera and transforms his original screenplay into something akin to a Fathom Event …
Upon catching hubby in the arms of her best friend, snooty ‘Lady’ Sandra (Imelda Staunton) hops a train to bunk with the commoner sister (Celia Imrie) she hasn’t seen in years. A sideways glance at the poster was all it took before I began to wave away the stink of …