The same characters may be around from the Italian film The Last Kiss, but they’re highly unbearable in its sequel, Kiss Me Again:
→Admittedly, I quite enjoyed Gabriele Muccino’s 2002 effort, The Last Kiss, finding it entertaining despite its pretentiousness and derivative style. Though it completely ignored many consequences of its characters’ infidelities and betrayals, it didn’t necessarily advocate the forgiveness of these reprehensible acts, indicated by the film’s final sequence that assured us the repercussions of its protagonist’s affair with a high schooler would soon catch up with him.
As part of the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema program by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, I take a look at the tangent universes of One Life, Maybe Two:
→It’s well known that Stephen King was, shall we say, less than pleased with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of his novel The Shining.
→Sitting in the theater before Iron Man, I noticed that the trailers, aimed towards the “superhero crowd,” were particularly good this evening. Indiana Jones, the latest Dark Knight trailer—I’d seen them all before, but it was good spectacle on the big screen.
→Is Rob Zombie a hack? Does Eli Roth have any sort of moral compass? Or does the “Splat Pack” specialize in making gory garbage? Today I put Mr. Roth and Mr. Zombie on trial for Crimes Against Cinema. Don’t worry, the rest of the “Splat Pack” will have their day as well.
→Recently, when a Dallas sports radio host celebrated a milestone show, he was surprised when a special guest phoned in for a live congratulatory call. It was President George W. Bush.
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