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RvB's After Images: Raising Cain (1992)
Filed under: Comedy », Thrillers », After Image »
The double-role has been a favorite for movie audiences for a long time. Actors as different as Lon Chaney and Ronald Colman have indulged in the two-actors-for-the-price-of-one roles. In The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart will get to do a two-fer, playing a character who didn't get nearly enough to do in that Joel Schumacher fiasco. (Though I did very much enjoy the bifurcated Tommy Lee Jones' use of the pluralis majestatis, the royal "we.") Few double-roles, however, are as roundly a good time as Brian De Palma's Raising Cain, a reviled but rich melodrama derived in equal parts from Psycho and the equally scandalous Peeping Tom. Preposterous, invigoratingly silly, and done to a technical turn by Hitchcock's most devoted fan, this forgotten thriller gives John Lithgow -- kindly actor and easy-going TV star of Third Rock from the Sun --a chance to show his hulking, evil side.
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Tribeca Review: Kill Your Darlings
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Tribeca », Cinematical Indie »
There's some relatively smart corporate humor in Kill Your Darlings, the debut feature from Björne Larson, whose first short, To Kill a Child,
premiered at Tribeca three years ago. Most of what's good about the film involves John Larroquette, who is given an opportunity to deliver a slightly more
layered performance than usual as Dr. Bangley, a celebrishrink (think Dr. Phil with an Ivy League sheen) launching a
book and reality show based on his controversial work with suicide survivors, called Stay Alive – and Enjoy
the Ride! , and Greg Germann recycles the best of the sleaziness
he perfected on Ally MacBeal as Bangley's media consultant. As the befuddled figurehead of a media train gone
off the rails, Larroquette nicely underplays an ambivalence between family values and fame, whilst Germann's reptilian
efficiency hits the perfect note of nonchalance.
It's too bad that Kill Your Darlings isn't really about these characters, because most of the 70% of the film not involving them is nearly unwatchable.
It's too bad that Kill Your Darlings isn't really about these characters, because most of the 70% of the film not involving them is nearly unwatchable.
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