Tag: Stephen Herek
Business Time: Our Little Secret is a Rom-Com With Little Com and Even Less Rom (But Plenty of Vom)
When a business proposal is at the center of the “romantic” cachet in a movie, it’s a sure sign that the plot has been lost [Read More…]
Dog Gone, Or: Dogs Are Not (Capitalist) Pigs
It would be easy to write the film adaptation of Dog Gone off as “treacle,” “schmaltz,” “overwrought tripe,” etc.—which, in fact, a large majority of [Read More…]
Anita Is Estella and Cruella Is Baroness in 1996’s 101 Dalmatians
The Devil Wears Prada angle of Cruella might, for many, be seen as “new” in terms of approaching the world of Cruella de Vil, but [Read More…]