Bill Gallo, Author at Cleveland Scene

Cain and Able

Billy Bob doesn’t say much, but he’s the perfect Man for the Coens’ con job.

Hardball tries too hard to please, but charms nonetheless.

Scorpion is fun if familiar, one of Allen’s typical Manhattan riffs.

Color-blind casting is one thing, but Captain Corelli’s Mandolin goes absurdly overboard.

Made, a wannabe mob comedy, won’t be furthering anyone’s career.

Wanting is everything in the Everybody’s Famous! culture of celebrity madness.

Despite its flaws, Too Much Sleep is an entertaining debut.

Tobias Schneebaum is a weird guy, but that doesn’t mean his story is compelling.

Alma Mahler may have been a harpy, but the witless adventuress portrayed in Bride of the Wind? Not likely.

Hollywood reimagines Nabokov as Rocky for the art-house crowd.

Bergman’s obsessive angst pervades the disturbing Faithless, an Ullmann knockoff.

The spirit of Hitchcock pops up in a deft French thriller.