Features
Thursday, July 21 2011
Ethical Backbone: An Interview with 'A Better Life' Director Chris Weitz
"The moment that you turn a camera on to a situation that is politically charged at all," Chris Weitz says,"Your film is going to be politicized in the minds of the people who watch it. And that’s okay."
Thursday, January 7 2010
The Worst Films of 2009
What does it say about the last 12 months that two of the year's biggest blockbusters also find residence near the top of our annual compilation of cinematic abominations? Oh, and the rest are pretty rotten as well.
Tuesday, March 24 2009
Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)
In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.
Columns
Tuesday, January 5 2010
New Moon: Wherefor Art Thou Edward?
Bella and Edward's longing for each other is what makes the series so appealing. It fully encapsulates the bliss and agony of first love or any love that would make you lie down and die for the other person.
Reviews
Friday, July 15 2011
'A Better Life': I Keep My Head Down
In A Better Life, Carlos' feelings of dislocation raise questions concerning the definition of "home."
Friday, November 20 2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
As she ponders her future, Bella is less aware than you are that she has very similar effects on the monster boy rivals for her affection -- glowing eyes, rising tempers, pronounced teeth, ungodly strength, usually demonstrated on others of their ilk or furniture.
Tuesday, May 13 2008
The Golden Compass
Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.
Friday, December 7 2007
The Golden Compass
Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.
News
Thursday, December 13 2007
The author of 'The Golden Compass' doesn't mince words
He certainly doesn't look like a god-killer. But that's how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children's tales. No, in…
Sunday, December 9 2007
Critics say 'Golden Compass' is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy
Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing…
Friday, December 7 2007
Critics say 'Golden Compass' is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy
Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing…
Thursday, December 6 2007
Director says initial reaction to 'Compass' hasn't been golden
Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He's just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, "The Golden Compass," which opens around the world Friday.…
Thursday, December 6 2007
'Compass' author's atheism stirs debate on film's message
Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes "to get to the part about Jesus' birth…
