Director Peter Hutchings’ “Then Came You” isn’t a movie for cynics. It’s for romantics — or at least teen sleepover parties. Though it has many of the qualities that made teen terminal-illness weepies “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” work, Hutchings’ dramedy eschews much of those films’ sincerity and intimacy in favor of sap and saccharine.
Withdrawn 19-year-old Calvin Lewis (Asa Butterfield) is fearful of most things in life — particularly because he thinks he’s dying. He’s convinced his dad (David Koechner) that he needs an expensive litany of medical testing. Despite the results turning up negative for every illness, Calvin is sure he’s sick and journals everything from his daily temperature to the size of a mole on his chest. Concerned older brother Frank (Tyler Hoechlin) has tried in vain to pull the hypochondriac out of his depressive funk, but his attempts have failed miserably.
Withdrawn 19-year-old Calvin Lewis (Asa Butterfield) is fearful of most things in life — particularly because he thinks he’s dying. He’s convinced his dad (David Koechner) that he needs an expensive litany of medical testing. Despite the results turning up negative for every illness, Calvin is sure he’s sick and journals everything from his daily temperature to the size of a mole on his chest. Concerned older brother Frank (Tyler Hoechlin) has tried in vain to pull the hypochondriac out of his depressive funk, but his attempts have failed miserably.
- 1/31/2019
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
Singer Percy Sledge has died at the age of 73, the Associated Press reports. The soul singer, best known for "When a Man Loves a Woman," died of liver cancer at his home in Louisiana shortly after midnight on Tuesday. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's debut single and his biggest hit, reaching No. 1 in 1966 and charting again in the late '80s. Covers by Bette Midler and Michael Bolton also topped the charts, but Sledge never received any of the song's publishing royalties, having given all songwriting credit to bassist Calvin Lewis and organ player Andrew Wright as thanks for helping him rework the song's lyrics. After the song became a hit, Sledge refused to fight for his share of the credit, but the experience left him with mixed emotions. "I felt like, if God fixed it in my mouth to give it to them, I won't change...
- 4/14/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
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