Features
Friday, September 12 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008
Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.
Reviews
Wednesday, April 6 2011
Compelling but Uneven, the Two Leads Carry 'Love and Other Drugs' with Charm
An up-and-coming pharmaceutical sales rep and an artist with early-onset Parkinson's are stubborn anti-romantics, but they can't help but fall for one another.
Wednesday, November 24 2010
'Love and Other Drugs': Cure-Alls
As it goes about its romantic-comedy-drama business, Love and Other Drugs also conjures a sometimes fascinating other plot.
Thursday, June 4 2009
Defiance
Defiance not only pays tribute to the Bielski partisans, but also casts an empathetic glance at the plight of refugees everywhere.
Wednesday, December 31 2008
Defiance
Defiance's tendency to melodrama drags the rest of this ostensibly historical saga into a decidedly middling territory.
Friday, December 8 2006
Blood Diamond (2006)
The movie can't seem to get out of its own way, relying on melodramatic clichés to make complex political observations.
Blogs
Friday, January 30 2009
'Defiance' Can't Help But Feel Derivative
The Holocaust remains, for all intents and purposes, the ultimate expression of evil in our lifetime. Outside the obvious elements of genocide and the organized…
Tuesday, December 9 2008
Holo-Cost
All across the web this past week, it's been the subject of much metaphysical ink. As awards season slowly winds down, Hollywood is dragging out…
News
Thursday, January 22 2009
‘Defiance' survivors remember Bielskis' strength, courage
Not all Holocaust stories end in death. For more than 1,200 Jews hunted in the forests of Belarus, life - extraordinarily difficult and dangerous -…
Friday, January 16 2009
‘Defiance' co-stars had to endure cold, primitive conditions to play WWII rebels
Think Holocaust movie. What do you see? Lines of weary men, women and children being herded to their deaths? That's the conventional view. But in…
Monday, January 12 2009
‘Defiance' director Edward Zwick wants to be the Ken Burns of the multiplex
Things didn't have to work out this way for Edward Zwick. The "thirtysomething" and "My So Called Life" co-creator broke into the movies with "About…
