Features
Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Wednesday, April 30 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008
And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.
Reviews
Friday, January 20 2012
'On Freddie Roach': New Angles on Boxing
As actual and consequential as fighting is in On Freddie Roach, it's also figurative and allusive, shaping self-images as it reshapes physical bodies.
Thursday, September 22 2011
'Prime Suspect' Manages to Dash All High Expectations
With the cards so loaded against Jane as a woman, she quickly becomes a caricature, a throwback to the strident Ms. dreamed up by men in the '70s and '80s.
Wednesday, July 2 2008
Hancock
John Hancock is a black superhero desired and derided by crowds who are informed by spectacles, stereotypes, and fear.
Friday, September 28 2007
The Kingdom
Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence.
Friday, October 8 2004
Friday Night Lights (2004)
It's mostly about how football -- in this place, at this time -- overwhelms its adherents, apparently giving them something to live for but also sucking their lives from them.
Blogs
Tuesday, July 1 2008
'Hancock' Hampered by Schizophrenic Script
Will Smith is the new up to date version of the late in life career of Charleton Heston. No, he's not some gun wielding NRA…
News
Thursday, July 3 2008
Unheroic superhero appealed to director 'Hancock' director Peter Berg
"I loved the idea of an alcoholic, nihilistic, subversive superhero, fighting crime drunk," says Peter Berg about "Hancock" - a screenplay that's been kicking around…
Friday, November 9 2007
Today's foreign wars are Hollywood hell
This is not your grandfather's war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn't stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films…
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.…
