#All these sleepless nights review movie

#All these sleepless nights review movie

The visually and dramatically inert 'Sleepless' had me sleeping soundly… Just as bad or worse is Nacho Vigalondo's (never trust a movie by a guy named Nacho) ' Colossal,' with Anne Hathaway as an alcoholic New York screw-up who discovers to her horror that her movements control those of a monster marching through the streets of Seoul. She knows and she accepts, but what is her journey of grief?Ī big disappointment is Michal Marczak's Polish import ' All These Sleepless Nights,' in which we spend 100 minutes watching two twenty-something best friends party, dance and jabber meaninglessly across Warsaw. Both lead actors grew on me, but I kept waiting in vain for Young to take Marcia, who is black, anywhere exciting. Young introduces fascinating ideas about the role of money in the power dynamics of the relationship, but when Yenny's father finds out about their romance, beats Yenny and threatens Brad, Brad takes off for Jamaica and a needlessly contrived plot resolution. Anthony Rapp stars as Brad, a Schenectady collection agent whose son has recently died and who begins an online relationship with Yenny (Jimmy Brooks), a young Jamaican who calls Brad his 'daddy.' As Yenny seeds their interactions with increasingly less subtle ploys for money, Brad's alarm bells go off, but he shuts out his wife Marcia (De'Adre Aziza) and spends all his free time Skyping with Yenny. Young's ' bwoy,' transgressive themes and fresh, compelling Skype-based sex scenes are ultimately undone by micro-budget production values, underdeveloped characters and a climax that's predictable but not credible.

Quick capsules on another awful April at the movies: