In terms of ambitiousness, Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier is in many ways as ambitious as a superhero comic book can get. Cooke tied DC Comics superheroes to the American political landscape of the 1950s and, while he didn’t have an absolute success, he did just fine, never losing the zeal (occasionally letting it go […]
Entries Tagged as 'John Heard'
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, Dave Bullock)
March 13th, 2008 1 Comment
Between the Lines (1977, Joan Micklin Silver)
November 30th, 2007 No Comments
There are some good scenes in Between the Lines and some good performances… but thanks to director Micklin Silver’s direction, a lot of it feels like a really unfunny episode of a sitcom. “A very special episode” or something. It’s like maudlin moment strung over ninety-some minutes only to bounce up at the end. The […]
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979, Joan Micklin Silver)
August 24th, 2007 No Comments
Chilly Scenes of Winter painfully chronicles the year in a man’s life after he loses his girlfriend. Painfully is my chosen word for a couple reasons. First, because Joan Micklin Silver doesn’t disguise how messed up John Heard’s character is over the break-up and is just in general. Heard’s character is either the romantic lead […]
