Writer-director Robin Swicord’s film seems content to merely carry out its absurdist premise until the bitter end.
The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle.
I wasn’t the only person to see the connection to Porky’s.
Robin Swicord’s The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals.
Rob Marshall doesn’t hype the soul of Japan, only its artifice.