Tuesday, February 3 2009
Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
As Adjust Your Color recounts, Petey Greene used his groundbreaking radio and television talk shows to influence millions, winning two Emmy awards and varieties of adulation over the years.
Friday, January 16 2009
Hotel for Dogs
Hotel for Dogs is wholly predictable and tiring, delivering its “message” with all the subtlety of a flashing neon sign.
Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
Wednesday, August 27 2008
Traitor
While the film appears at first to be complicating the definition of "traitor," it's not long before the potential meanings are reductive and literal.
Friday, May 23 2008
Hamburger Hill: 20th Anniversary Edition
For its unflinching approach, its eye for human strength and compassion, its clear message about the catastrophic stupidity of the enterprise itself, this remains among the very best films ever made about men at war.
Thursday, November 29 2007
Talk to Me
Vibrant, exuberant, colorful and irresistibly alive, Talk to Me is a celebration of a lifestyle as much as a life -- the thumping funk, soul and R&B of the late '60s, early '70s.
Monday, November 5 2007
Darfur Now
The documentary showcases small steps, its subjects' work moment by moment to confront a crisis that appears overwhelming -- to feed one child, shelter one rape victim.
