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  Knox Goes Away      By Biff Whipster      8/3/2024      Knox Goes Away is the new feature directed and starring Michael Keaton . This is Keatons second directorial effort after 2008’s The Merry Gentleman (which I had never heard of before)      Keatons directing choices here fall flat. The constant fade to black transitions, the staging, and the 100% cliche detective B-Story feels like Lifetime Original fare, and leads to a wildly uneven tone. To be fair, it’s a MAX streaming original, so it’s basically a made for TV movie, but it really feels like a made for TV movie. The plot is well paced, and compelling at times, but the A and B stories feel like they’re from different movies.       Keaton as a performer is metered and stoic, and well foiled by an energetic James Marsden Al Pacino also has a small, but earnest role. Keaton brings life to the films strongest area; It’s realistic and stark presen...
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                              Asteroid City   & Wes Through The Year By Biff Whipster     August 2, 2024      As I watched Asteroid City for the first time tonight, I wondered to myself “How meta can you go?” And should you?      If The French Dispatch was Wes Anderson's love letter to journalism, and art, then Asteroid City is his love letter to the stage and the author. More specifically, the relationship of the author and his subjects. It is rife with Andersonisms , it’s heart on its sleeve,  and tongue planted thoroughly in cheek.      As I watched, I began to wonder what “period” this would be for Anderson, and undoubtedly it would be his “meta period”. Anderson’s mainstream audience appeal began to peak  with The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic . It’s around this time that a new Wes Anderson film would be greeted with joy by ...
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