Some Velvet Morning is full of secrets.
by J.R. Jones
Critics always catch hell for spoiling a movie's surprises, and this acidic two-hander by writer-director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men) is such a narrative onion that I can barely recount the premise without diminishing your enjoyment of the story. Suffice it to say that, one morning around lunchtime, the beautiful young Velvet (Alice Eve) receives an unexpected and quite unwelcome visit from the caustic, middle-aged Fred (Stanley Tucci), and the two characters rake over their shared past as the threat of violence steadily grows.…[ Read more ]