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.
Friday, December 8 2006
The Movie Hero (2003)
Both eulogy and cautionary tale, The Movie Hero is a glimpse into that unfortunate space where a labor of love curdles into spite.
Monday, October 30 2006
Saw III (2006)
Even as he's dying of a cancerous tumor in his frontal lobe and so might have other things to think about, John holds fast to his self-image as moral instructor, not murderer.
Tuesday, March 28 2006
Thief
You're still catching your breath after Lem's devastating exit last week on The Shield. And now comes a whole other kind of hurt. André Braugher plays a career criminal whose life swings way out of control in Thief, FX's slot-replacement for Lem's show.
Tuesday, October 15 2002
Birds of Prey
Follows neither the super-crip model of disability perception, where an individual's 'triumph' over disability is celebrated through public tokenism, nor the common perception of disability merely as an object of pity.
