Friday, December 12 2008
Gran Torino
As Gran Torino breaks down the iconic Eastwood Movie, it recalls The Searchers, another timely evocation of collective wrongheadedness and terrible legacies.
Monday, September 24 2007
Journeyman
No amount of philosophical study or science fiction reading would enable a viewer to disentangle the existential questions raised by its cavalier treatment of time, so Journeyman simply pretends they do not exist.
Monday, March 26 2007
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
The Pursuit of Happyness is the male version of a "chick flick": aimed at wringing tears from even the most macho dude in the house.
Friday, December 15 2006
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
As quick and resolute as Chris may be, he's still caught up in the fiction around him, The Pursuit of Happyness, which is not nearly so smart.
Tuesday, July 6 2004
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra constitutes another attempt, lovingly based on bad, low-budget movies, borrowing from and referencing classics.
Monday, November 10 2003
A Minute With Stan Hooper
Unfunny Norm has been surrounded by a group as unfunny as he, creating an entire unfunny world of their own, a sort of Unfunny Matrix.
