Thursday, October 20 2011
‘Jackie Brown’: Is a Love Story, a Heist Film, an Offbeat Crime Story Set to a Great Soundtrack
The intriguing combination of Elmore Leonard's voice with Tarantino's unique dialogue leads to his best film.
Friday, June 10 2011
Stratospheric Climbing in ‘Limitless’
In Alan Glynn's suspenseful novel, men and women toy with the possibility of chemically enhancing a person's brain power -- and chaos ensues.
Thursday, February 5 2009
Righteous Kill
This movie boasts a tired and generic script and achieves a weird sort of harmonic convergence of forgetablilty.
Thursday, November 6 2008
Director brings some of his own industry experiences to ‘What Just Happened?’
Monday, October 20 2008
What Just Happened
Less an expose than a recap of what even casual observers of the industry know or intuit, What Just Happened relies on clichés even as it deplores them.
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2
Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.
Friday, September 12 2008
‘Righteous Kill’: Attacked on All Sides
Righteous Kill uses Karen (Carla Gugino) both to critique the male cops' sense of self-righteousness and be the victim.



































