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September 2013

September 02, 2013
When we stop asking our films to save the lost while entertaining the justified and...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
One of the more interesting moments in The Bourne Identity comes about a quarter of...
August 25, 2013
Given that admission, there's no real upside to admitting that Taxi Driver doesn't float my...
August 21, 2013
Making a horror movie must be a little like writing a sonnet. The form is...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
About thirty-five to forty minutes into The Great Gatsby, I started wondering if I was...
July 19, 2013
I did not intentionally watch Iceberg Slim on the week in which a man of...
July 18, 2013
I can't say I wasn't warned.
July 10, 2013
It wasn't so much that there were a half-dozen movies as bad as or worse...
July 09, 2013
I haven't been this depressed after a movie since An Inconvenient Truth.
July 08, 2013
The editor of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema Volume I (Cambridge Scholars...
July 03, 2013
I'll probably never win over the skeptics, and that's okay, but ten years later, Pirates...

June 2013

June 21, 2013
An oddly engaging but ultimately unsatisfying endeavor, Some Girl(s) is best described as a cross...
June 16, 2013
One of the more unfortunate side-effects of the polarization and politicization of American discourse is...
June 12, 2013
"Do you feel safer?"
June 01, 2013
Kids see, hear, and understand as much as we fear and more than we let...

May 2013

May 19, 2013
If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo's book, The Celluloid...
May 03, 2013
The strange thing, the downright bizarre thing, about this quest is that Marvel Studios and...
May 01, 2013
The same month that the Academy was handing best Foreign Film honors to Michael Haneke’s...

April 2013

April 25, 2013
"Is it just me, or is Michael Bay giving a deliberate middle finger to the...
April 19, 2013
Oblivion may be one of those films that is easier to mock than to dislike....
April 18, 2013
Ungerer ties his bold proclamation that "children should be traumatized" to his artistic vision that...
April 09, 2013
One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans...
April 07, 2013
In 1953, the Pulitzer Prize for was awarded to the editor of the Tabor City...
April 05, 2013
Abortion is not an abstraction.
April 02, 2013
Mark Kitchell's A Fierce Green Fire takes a longitudinal view, contextualizing arguments about global climate...

March 2013

March 31, 2013
It is hard to think of a proclamation of Jesus that is harder to understand--or...
March 30, 2013
Comprised of dozens of short (one or two minute) vignettes, Venice Souvenir attempts to capture...
March 26, 2013
Between 1989 and 2003, Jim Sheridan was nominated for six Academy Awards. Three were for...
March 04, 2013
The themes of surrendering to a self-torturing, illicit passion is rote, but the theme of...
March 02, 2013
In sublimating every other theme to it, he ends up repressing the film's potential greatness...
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