Monday, May 4 2009

Fighting the Flu

By Marco Lanzagorta

The mobilization of the military to control the spread of the current outbreak of a rare strain of the swine flu in Mexico City is right out of Stephen King’s The Stand.

Wednesday, September 15 2004

Baadasssss! (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Mario Van Peebles came up understanding the power of images as a means to incite and reveal revolution.

Friday, May 28 2004

Baadasssss! (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

At once the biography of Melvin Van Peebles as a young, angry, brilliant filmmaker (played by Mario, who looks achingly like his dad in a couple of shots, with cigar, sculpted face, and black hat), and his own biography.

Monday, May 24 2004

Bubba Ho-tep: Limited Collector’s Edition (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Combining conventions and clichés from Westerns and horror films, Bubba Ho-tep is as much about how stories get told as it is a story in itself.

Thursday, September 25 2003

Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)

By Josh Jones

Bubba Ho-Tep has everything one might expect from a movie directed by Don Coscarelli (the Phastasm series) and starring Bruce Campbell.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Dinosaur (2000)

By Mike Ward

The movie certainly doesn't devote much screen time to the dinosaurs' long-term fate, instead being content to follow along as Aladar tries to get laid without getting eaten -- you know, the way we all do.

Do the Right Thing (1989/2001)

By Jonathan Beebe