Monday, July 12 2010
‘Caught in the Crossfire’ Gets Caught-up in Every Cop-Movie Cliché There Is
Well, I'm glad to see that Chris Klein still gets work...
Monday, March 23 2009
Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)
The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.
Friday, April 21 2006
American Dreamz (2006)
Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?
Wednesday, September 8 2004
The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.
Thursday, April 1 2004
The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.
Thursday, February 28 2002
We Were Soldiers (2002)
'We Were Soldiers' is, above all, an earnest film, working overtime not to be a standard U.S. war movie where the good (white) boys fight against diabolical 'others'.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Say It Isn’t So (2001)
The most annoying aspects of 'Say It Isn't So' have to do with its uneven tone, part ironic, wise-cracking condescension and part clueless, mean-spirited condescension.
Election (1999)
High school sucks. While this is currently a headlines-worthy observation, movies about high school have been underscoring it for years. From Blackboard Jungle, Carrie, Jawbreaker, and Heathers, to Cooley High, Scream, The Ice Storm, and Never Been Kissed, the point is the same: in high school, you spend way too much time worrying about cliques, grades, popularity, and sex.
