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Articles tagged "brian howe" NewsHanging tough with the old master Clint Eastwoodby Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][30.Dec.08] :. As Gran Torino opens, Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (played by Clint Eastwood) has just buried his wife - and with her, his remaining interest in the world around him. An unapologetically racist,...  NewsHollywood, race and the Age of Obamaby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...  Film ReviewGran Torinoby Cynthia Fuchs[12.Dec.08] :. As Gran Torino breaks down the iconic Eastwood Movie, it recalls The Searchers, another timely evocation of collective wrongheadedness and terrible legacies.  TV ReviewJourneymanby Lesley Smith[24.Sep.07] :. 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.  Film DVD ReviewThe Pursuit of Happyness (2006)by Matt Mazur[26.Mar.07] :. 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.  Film ReviewThe Pursuit of Happyness (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Dec.06] :. 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. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)by Erich Kuersten[6.Jul.04] :. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra constitutes another attempt, lovingly based on bad, low-budget movies, borrowing from and referencing classics. A Minute With Stan Hooperby James Oliphant[10.Nov.03] :. 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. |
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