
When Jack Frost was nipping at your nose, what did you imagine he looked like?

I suppose one could criticize the lightheartedness here as discordant with the horror already occurring across Europe. But I’m not going to. When the king refers to the fascist assaults on Spanish civilians, the grim present and grimmer future are right there on the surface. Hyde Park on Hudson is similar to many films about distant families and friends gathering for awkward weekends, but in this narrative the participants also have to worry about saving the free world.
We know there’s going to be some redemption (it’s Denzel Washington, after all) but we don’t need to see it happen over and over again.
We probably won’t know which student-made bumpers will be played before screenings at the upcoming Savannah Film Festival until a week from now, but lots of links have been crossing my desk(top).