Mark Wahlberg’s Performance Comes Up Snake Eyes in the Remake of ‘The Gambler’
Mark Wahlberg's performance in this thrice-removed Dostoyevsky adaptation is all surface moves, dance steps without the music.
Douglas Norton
Douglas Norton is an Ohio native, and has written about film for the websites Movie Metropolis and Flickering Myth. He is also a published contributor to several music education textbooks. in his day job, he teaches high school music in Lima, Ohio. He is married, with two sons, and loves to spend his free time doing community theater productions and helping his dogs chase squirrels out of the yard. "I'm fascinated by the way film navigates the twin courses of art and commerce, and that's reflected in my long-standing appreciation for genre filmmaking, drive-in movies, and independent film. There is grace and beauty in the disposable and the low-brow, no less than in the approved high art of the mainstream."
In 1987, ‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Satirized Hollywood’s Race Problem That Still Exists Today
Hollywood Shuffle sends up Hollywood's stereotype treatment of black actors.
‘Wild at Heart’ Is David Lynch’s Exuberant Circus of Romance and Violence
Compared to David Lynch's bleak take on fate and human nature in, say, Eraserhead or Lost Highway, this is sunshine and sailboats -- albeit with plenty of vivid sex, violence, and twisted humor.