Features
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Columns
Friday, September 26 2008
Pretty Vacant
The world of The Duchess should have been one of fiery tumult, but little of that foment makes it into this film’s garden party landscape.
Reviews
Thursday, September 25 2008
The Duchess
The movie, which surely celebrates Georgiana's (Keira Knightley) luxurious "hats and dresses," also solicits your sympathetic frustration and outrage over her oppression.
Friday, May 13 2005
Bullet Boy (2004)
Bullet Boy begins by the stylized violence book: a boy, locked in the boot of a moving car, uses a key-ring torch to get an idea of his surroundings.
Blogs
Friday, October 10 2008
'Duchess' is Merely Half-Hearted History
There's a very good reason why most period pieces don't work. Aside from the obvious disconnect from modern social constraints and complications, contemporary audiences just…
