Monday, March 21 2011
SXSW Film Festival Day 5: ‘Life in a Day’ / ‘My Sucky Teen Romance’
A teen movie about vampires, shot by teens, making fun of teen vampire movies -- I prepared myself for the worst.
Friday, April 17 2009
State of Play
In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term.
Friday, April 20 2007
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Based on Giles Foden’s novel of the same name this bold, visceral cinematic-bodyblow takes a political maelstrom and a maniacal dictator and squeezes them into the mould of a genre-picture.
Wednesday, September 27 2006
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
That Nicholas is also capable of great horrors, specifically in that he lets others act it for him and gets away with it, makes him, at some level, even more troubling than Amin.
Monday, June 14 2004
Touching the Void (2003)
Joe Simpson says, 'I'd forgotten how difficult it was. I've told the story so many times, it's just become a fiction.'"
Thursday, January 22 2004
Touching the Void (2003)
Each climber can come to terms with 'what happened,' but neither can know the entire truth of it.
Sunday, January 1 1995
One Day in September (1999)
By tracing these failures, 'One Day in September' represents compelling links between sports (in general and specifically Olympian) and violence, as a basis for cultural exchange.


































