Alison WillmoreDec 20, 20112 minCan I call you Lisbeth?David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo rises to the level of its source material and no further, achieving no alchemical Silence...
Alison WillmoreDec 2, 20112 minThese little town blues are melting away.Carey Mulligan sings a slow, torchy rendition of "New York, New York" in Shame, director Steve McQueen allowing the entire song to unfurl...
Alison WillmoreFeb 8, 20111 minCheer up, emo kid.This should be right in my nerdy/pretentious wheelhouse, being as it’s literary fiction with a shiny, self-conscious veneer of sci-fi,...
Alison WillmoreFeb 3, 20111 minTears of a sidekick.The thing with this scene, which comes at the end of a documentary about the White Stripes' 2007 Canadian tour, is that it seems to sum...
Alison WillmoreMay 20, 20101 minIt's time to pay the price.I prised We Need To Talk About Kevin from a shelf otherwise filled with Dutch paperbacks at a hotel in Thailand and read it in giant,...