FASTER THAN A SCREENING BULLET
Hollywoodland is a title that could benefit from dropping its last syllable. The film's director, Allen Coulter, says that the term "suggests a state of mind," but even as the story embellishes on the mystery surrounding the suicide in 1959 of actor George Reeves, star of the popular 1950s Superman television program, it is hardly steeped in enough Americana to justify the director's grandiose pontifications. It ends up as a decent Hollywood noir, but its dour tone fails to reach that proverbial Tinseltown sparkle. For a period piece, it's strangely subdued.
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Hollywoodland is a title that could benefit from dropping its last syllable. The film's director, Allen Coulter, says that the term "suggests a state of mind," but even as the story embellishes on the mystery surrounding the suicide in 1959 of actor George Reeves, star of the popular 1950s Superman television program, it is hardly steeped in enough Americana to justify the director's grandiose pontifications. It ends up as a decent Hollywood noir, but its dour tone fails to reach that proverbial Tinseltown sparkle. For a period piece, it's strangely subdued.
Read the rest of the review at indieWIRE...
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