Thursday, February 11 2010
Streamers
This film is a smoldering evisceration of male hypocrisy, pretense, racial anxiety, and sexual panic that would give Neil LaBute pause.
Friday, September 25 2009
Hal Ashby: Hollywood Rebel
Films and books strive toward a common goal: telling a story. And very few modern filmmakers are as good at spinning a yarn as the late Hal Ashby was.
Thursday, January 29 2009
What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye’s Liberation from the Motown Sound
When Obie Benson of the Four Tops brought him a song he had co-written with Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye found something that had reflected the way he had been feeling ever since Tammi Terrell's death -- anger, sadness, and disillusionment about his friend's death and the chaotic world around him.
Monday, October 1 2007
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
The Vietnam experience invades Halberstam's account of the Korean War.
Tuesday, June 5 2007
Billy Jack, the Original Blockbuster
Through the era-defining "Billy Jack" character, director Tom Laughlin pushed the outlandish, over-the-top event movie into the motion picture mainstream.
