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December 2009

December 10, 2009
There is something about the existential angst of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) that--I don't know--might...
December 06, 2009
Biniez doesn’t mock Jara but instead lets us see the world through his eyes.
December 01, 2009
It is the policy of this blog that if the editor or reviewer has received from...

November 2009

November 21, 2009
Summit Entertainment heard their cries and has delivered a well-wrought, thoughtful version of New Moon...
November 15, 2009
OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the Coming-Of-Age film genre
November 03, 2009
One strength of the film is that it relies heavily on the words of a...
November 01, 2009
Although the movie is named for Sterling Hayden’s character, the story really revolves around saloon...

September 2009

September 29, 2009
I never did attend film school or seminary, or design my own college major combining...
September 21, 2009
No pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of...
September 21, 2009
As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac...
September 16, 2009
Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show...
September 15, 2009
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog.
September 13, 2009
Jane Campion's Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It...
September 11, 2009
Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that...
September 10, 2009
Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with...
September 07, 2009
The larger point, though, is that Hollywood has participated from the beginning in shaping our...
September 06, 2009
Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women...
September 04, 2009
Part Short Cuts, part Lone Star, part Saved!, with a pinch of Flannery O'Connor thrown...

August 2009

August 31, 2009
It is an eleven minute short film with Equiano's text read over images of contemporary...
August 29, 2009
To call Lake of Fire uncompromisingly sober is to call a roundhouse kick to the...
August 23, 2009
You should know the resulting film is one where the titular Basterds are not the...
August 16, 2009
Originally delivered as an address to the Midwest Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM)...
August 14, 2009
The main reason I'm posting about the show, however, is that noted scholar and Buffy...
August 09, 2009
In fact, there may be the tiniest hint of feminine fantasy in the film's stew...
August 04, 2009
Huston said of directing: "[...] I try to direct as little as possible. The more...

July 2009

July 26, 2009
The act of reviewing carries with it a strain of judgment, and when reviewing a...
July 26, 2009
Several times while watching Waltz With Bashir I thought about the notion that by the...
July 24, 2009
In an interview republished in the anthology Interviews With Film Directors, Jean Mitry cites John...
July 22, 2009
One problem, of course, with a great books (or great films) curriculum is that we...
July 18, 2009
The moment that caught my attention in Nicholas Ray's 1956 melodrama Bigger Than Life is...
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