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Film
Monday, February 8 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Cove comes to the truth by means illegal and exciting, elaborately faked and cunningly inventive.
Friday, February 5 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Tao embodies the contradiction at the heart of the District 13 franchise, fiercely independent and wholly appropriated.
By Todd R. Ramlow
Clichés suffuse Dear John, including the repetitious soft-focus close-ups of Amanda Seyfried and excuses to get Channing Tatum's shirt off.
By Cynthia Fuchs
If you've seen one of the hundreds of movies like From Paris With Love, you know long before Reese does where he's headed.
Thursday, February 4 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Her challenge may not be so visceral as the once confronting the climbers, but poor Luise must bear the emotional weight of North Face.
Monday, February 1 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
An overt design differentiates Off and Running from other documentaries, more conventionally observational and less plainly staged.
Friday, January 29 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Tommy Craven (Mel Gibson) is mad. You know because he furrows his brow, stares into space, slams bad guys through walls, and shoots at oncoming cars without even thinking of ducking.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Beth is curating an amazingly, incredibly, dreadfully important show, called "Pain." Yes, everyone feels it.
Thursday, January 28 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
In its broadest dimensions, the question of "to what purpose?" hangs over the entire documentary, The Shock Doctrine.
Wednesday, January 27 2010
By Jesse Hassenger
Legion is an exploitation movie unsure about what to exploit.
Tuesday, January 26 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World illustrates that traditional preparations support the restaurant's booming, completely contemporary commerce.
Friday, January 22 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Extraordinary Measures proceeds from one event to another, in an order that goes something like this: setback, triumph, setback, triumph, setback, triumph.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Creation suggests that in the face of personal tragedy, neither religion nor science is consistently helpful.
By Marisa Carroll
In Search of Memory isn’t just a depiction of an extraordinary life. It's a prescription for how to live.
By Jesse Hicks
Red Cliff executes a well-known scheme, with the overmatched insurgents trying to outwit and out-moxie a massive army.
Thursday, January 21 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The films assembled for Global Lens 2010 look through the prisms of individual experiences to find resounding truths.
Wednesday, January 20 2010
By Jesse Hicks
While Black Dynamite occasionally tweaks blaxploitation, it also reverentially evokes a singular moment in U.S. film history.
Tuesday, January 19 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The imagery is strangely exhilarating, trucks and ladder, hammers and pulleys, as well as a small army of workers who are thrilled for a range of reasons.
Friday, January 15 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Book of Eli stacks the deck in favor of good warrior Eli, who only deploys his killing skills against those deserving punishment and turns down the temptations.
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Fish Tank, director Andrea Arnold's follow-up to her mesmerizing Red Road, the primary and much-repeated point is that limited vision is costly.
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Wednesday, February 10 2010
By Faith Korpi
Take a quick look at fangirl history and you will realize that fangirls’ devotion has “made” some of the most significant players in pop culture history.
Tuesday, January 12 2010
By Matt Mazur
Young British actor Nicholas Hoult, at 20, has already been acting for 17 years. Currently, in A Single Man, he is romancing Colin Firth. Hoult recently spoke about being an object of desire, growing up on film sets and the multitude of amazing actresses with whom he has shared the screen.
Friday, January 8 2010
Wednesday, February 10 2010
By Michael Abernethy
Latins have the ALMAs, African-Americans the NAACP Image Awards, Christians the Dove Awards, so why isn't there a serious awards show given by the LGBT community for LGBT artists?
(more Queer, Isn't It?)
Friday, February 5 2010
By Rodger Jacobs
“The chief proof of a man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. It argues... a power of comparison and of appreciation which is in itself proof of nobility.”
(more Deconstruction Zone)
By Michael Brett
The Rockist visits James Cameron's Pandora in search of stone obelisks but finds only Ewoks.
(more The Rockist)
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Wednesday, February 10 2010
By Josh Jackson
In almost every number, Cuba is visually present. All are beautifully intercut to emphasize Cuba’s culture, its national identity, in the songs.
By Brian Holler
Hot on the heels of Holmes , Anchor Bay has brought Clark’s 1979 offering, half-B-movie, half-prestige pic Murder by Decree, to DVD.
By Alistair Dickinson
The girls in this remake are pampered brats whose anti-authoritianism is of the pre-packaged kind you can buy off the rack at Hot Topic.
Tuesday, February 9 2010
By Kirby Fields
The bad news is that the Weinsteins may have been right about trimming some of the fat; the good news is that even a flawed Tarantino is better than a perfect most anyone else.
By Christel Loar
Drop Dead Rock is a 1995 cult comedy starring Adam Ant and Debbie Harry, in which a washed up punk rocker is held for ransom by a bumbling band of misfit musicians.
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