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.
Monday, July 21 2008
Vantage Point
It’s almost rather brilliant the way the film betrays and sabotages itself as it comes down the home stretch.
Monday, March 24 2008
The Kite Runner
This is a sensitive, kind adaptation of a well-loved book, and the DVD has well-crafted features that help extend the message of what is essential to human existence: hope.
Friday, February 22 2008
Vantage Point
As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.
Friday, December 14 2007
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner shows that even if Baba could make his boy perfectly courageous and honest, outside forces inevitably affect even the most careful plans for the future.
Monday, August 9 2004
Hidalgo (2004)
'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'"
Monday, August 18 2003
The Good Thief (2003)
'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"
