Features
Tuesday, September 21 2010
Five Pluses for 'Hawaii Five-O': Reasons to Watch Yet Another Re-imagining
Hawaii Five-O’s looks, charm, and attitude may get mainlanders to take up surfing -- but not among channels.
Wednesday, March 26 2008
The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine
The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.
Tuesday, July 3 2007
Die Hard Neocon
In yet another Die Hard film this summer, Bruce Willis will reprise his role as John McClane. But can the public stomach the implicit politics that animate him?
Wednesday, May 2 2007
Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.
Reviews
Monday, September 20 2010
'Hawaii Five-0': Surf and Terrorism
Hawaii Five-0's first sequence is smartly staged action, fast-paced and technically impressive.
Sunday, February 8 2009
Underworld and Underworld: Evolution
Whereas The Matrix relied on hyper-cool outfits and the beauty of stylized action sequences to help tell its weird little story, Underworld relies on them to try to make us forget that we are watching a story this insipid.
Thursday, January 3 2008
Live Free or Die Hard
Bruce Willis' career may not have mandated a fourth trip into Die Hard territory. Who knew that action fans needed it so badly?
Wednesday, June 27 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Bruce Willis as John McClane is back, recalling all the retro rightness and righteousness he first incarnated in 1988.
Friday, January 20 2006
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Race here is not an inherent or stable identity, but mutable and mutating.
News
Friday, June 29 2007
If new 'Die Hard' is a hit, Timothy Olyphant can live free
MODESTO, Calif. -- If you're going to go big, go big. If you're going to go bad, go bad. If you're going to go big…
Wednesday, June 27 2007
Bruce Willis talks about the tardy return of his tough-guy alter ego
Bruce Willis shoots into the hotel suite like a blue-eyed bullet, head shaved, T white, jeans pale as his orbs. The wiry actor is trim,…
Thursday, June 14 2007
Mr. Cool: Bruce Willis returning to 'Die Hard' after 12 years
"Fifty percent of the time I'm right, but 50 percent of the time I'm just as wrong," he says in response to a question about his knack for choosing projects like "Die Hard" (1988) and "The Sixth Sense" (1999).
