Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Wednesday, August 22 2007
Pathfinder
Pathfinder is like building a time machine to watch Sunday-afternoon cable in 1987.
Friday, April 13 2007
Pathfinder (2007)
Boasting a prettified brutality that rivals that of 300, Pathfinder also explores a similar theme, the manly pursuit of revenge at any cost.
Friday, September 29 2006
The Guardian (2006)
Early snickers greeting The Guardian's trailers took an easy target. Kevin Costner in water: dude, it couldn't be good.
Monday, February 14 2005
Carnivàle
His quest has made Ben the most tortured man on TV. He's been beaten, buried alive, drugged, paralyzed, and forced to commit murder.
Wednesday, September 15 2004
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - Trackers (1999)
The Roughnecks characters are caught between blandness and a semi-cartoon stylization.
Past Midnight (1992)
A carnival of clichés, the film offers a bleak Pacific Northwest location, where it pours atmospheric buckets of foreboding.
Tuesday, February 10 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: Seascape Capers
Unlike cartoons that target adults, SpongeBob doesn't employ cynicism, crude humor, sarcasm, or biting social commentary.
