Thursday, October 13 2005
Once and Again: The Complete Second Season
Some of us want to see messy, contradictory lives on screen. We find escape enough in knowing that, as much as the problems feel familiar, they are not precisely our own.
Wednesday, October 13 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.
Friday, May 28 2004
Day After Tomorrow (2004)
As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.
Thursday, February 26 2004
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
Suddenly, Katey's aware of a perspective other than hers and other Americans'.
