Monday, May 25, 2009
Marley and me
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wolverine
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Cake Eaters
Kristen Stewart, of vampire girlfriend fame (Twilight), stars as
Sadly, unlike in Kristen Stewart starrer Twilight, the romance in The Cake Eaters is often hurried, making it lack the agonizingly built up tension of the former film, and instead feel half-baked. And since it is tough to identify with the characters and understand why they come to care for each other so quickly, the film feels rather like a metaphorical bundt cake with a collapsed emotional center. However the film is worth watching for Kristen Stewart’s transformative performance alone; she is surprising, nuanced and utterly convincing- slurring her speech and artfully managing to make the simple act of walking seem an unimaginably difficult feat.