Twenty years and 12 features down the line, it’s still hard to peg the directorial sensibility of Michael Polish, with or without the presence of brother Mark as frequent co-writer and actor. His output has been all over the place, from early Lynchian quirkfests to the very middle-of-the-road inspirational dramedy “The Astronaut Farmer,” not to mention mediocre genre exercises, a B&W Parisian romance (“For Lovers Only”). a good movie about Jack Kerouac (“Big Sur”), and one about manure salesmen that’s about as good as that sounds (“The Smell of Success”). It remains a puzzle whether his thematic interests are more laudably diverse than they are simply arbitrary.
“Nona” is yet another departure, a primarily Spanish-language feature shot on location in Central America, touching on issues of illegal immigration and human trafficking. The narrative’s picaresque road-trip majority doesn’t properly set up a late turn towards seriousness, draining...
“Nona” is yet another departure, a primarily Spanish-language feature shot on location in Central America, touching on issues of illegal immigration and human trafficking. The narrative’s picaresque road-trip majority doesn’t properly set up a late turn towards seriousness, draining...
- 12/15/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to casting movies, Kate Bosworth says ladies don’t always come first.
The Domestics star, 34, opened up about battling sexism in Hollywood during a sit-down with People Now, saying that she’s found that filmmakers always seem to cast the male lead before locking down a star actress.
“The one thing I heard on every single film — and I’m telling you there isn’t an exception — whenever I’m up for a role, really no matter how big or small, the answer that I always get from anyone who’s casting me , ‘We have to cast the guy first.
The Domestics star, 34, opened up about battling sexism in Hollywood during a sit-down with People Now, saying that she’s found that filmmakers always seem to cast the male lead before locking down a star actress.
“The one thing I heard on every single film — and I’m telling you there isn’t an exception — whenever I’m up for a role, really no matter how big or small, the answer that I always get from anyone who’s casting me , ‘We have to cast the guy first.
- 9/14/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
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