Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde is a new documentary film about (as the title suggests) the eventful life of cowboy Dayton O. Hyde, who describes himself as “a cowboy first, a conservationist second, and a writer third.”
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
When asked if their project assumes that Americans (or Christians) are more intolerant or Islamophbic than anyone else, Obeidallah demurred saying they were not so naive as to believe that “any one religion or group could hold a monopoly on prejudice.”
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
Despite the one misgiving about racial stereotyping, I thought Tio Papi was a good family film.
After the first seven minutes, I was worried, but then I realized the first seven minutes were actually a preview for a Metallica concert film.
When we stop asking our films to save the lost while entertaining the justified and just let them do one or the other, I expect we'll all be a lot happier.
One of the more interesting moments in The Bourne Identity comes about a quarter of the way through the film. Franka Potente plays Marie Kreutz, a woman who has agreed to drive a stranger to Paris in exchange for $10,000