Friday, February 25 2011
The Year in TV: July 2010
Continuing out look at the year’s most notable television events, here’s what happened in July 2010.
Friday, June 5 2009
Downloading Nancy
In Downloading Nancy, no one listens much to what Nancy has to say.
Thursday, October 9 2008
Eleventh Hour
In Eleventh Hour, the FBI agents like to explain what they're doing and who they are -- repeatedly.
Monday, June 23 2008
John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.
Tuesday, May 29 2007
Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.
Monday, March 19 2007
The Holiday (2006)
Even though the nostalgic aspects are mildly graceful, the contemporary characters' every move is still riddled with cliché and schmaltz.
Friday, February 23 2007
Amazing Grace (2006)
The movie's thematic insistence on seeing takes shape through slavery, a horrible moral blight even if it's off-screen in the colonies and not in London with our heroes.
Monday, January 29 2007
The Illusionist (2006)
This charming film occupies a place somewhere between Merchant Ivory and M. Night Shyamalan.
Friday, December 8 2006
The Holiday (2006)
The Holiday pretends its happy endings are premised on the women realizing their capacities as leading ladies. Really, what they're doing is finding the "right" men.
Friday, August 18 2006
The Illusionist (2006)
If The Illusionist's allegory isn't subtle, it is timely: those who seem authorities are illusionists, administering by entertainments.
