Reviews
Sunday, April 10 2011
Watching The Next Three Days Feels Like It Takes Three Days
An English professor uses the internet to learn how to break his wife out of prison.
Friday, November 19 2010
'The Next Three Days': A Reality of Our Own Making
John's not Keyser Söze, but John does have a self-certainty and aptitude for rationalization and moral relativism that make him just a little creepy.
Thursday, September 20 2007
In the Valley of Elah
Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."
Friday, May 6 2005
Crash (2004)
The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.
News
Thursday, May 14 2009
Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has some advice
Paul Haggis directed and co-wrote "Crash," named best picture at the Academy Awards in 2006, and scripted "Million Dollar Baby," honored as best picture the…
Friday, December 26 2008
Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama
Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood's Walt Kowalski in "Gran Torino," the…
Wednesday, January 2 2008
Iraq War-themed films can't find an audience
What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of…
Thursday, October 11 2007
A new script for Hollywood war movies
Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie "Across the Universe." A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in "In the Valley of Elah." The…
Monday, October 1 2007
Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism
Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade.…
