Takers is a small but pleasant surprise, an efficient late-summer action-heist film with a tight script and solid performances from an amiable ensemble cast. If it invites but doesn’t quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann’s …
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Earlier this summer, i said that the most important thing to know about The Other Guys was that it was funny.
Probably the most important thing to know about The Switch is that it is not.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence: everyone had to read it and everyone had an opinion about it. Published in 1970 to great popular acclaim (it …
Peter Waldron joins me to discuss what Toy Story 3 has in common with Black Hawk Down, which Pixar film is best, and what the differences is between an “emotional” and a “spiritual” aesthetic.
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Anti-science fiction? Kubrickian anti-narrative? Spielbergian sentiment? Readers at Cinevox seem to agree that the film is not successful. They don’t all agree why. Have an opinion? Join the discussion at Cinevox.
CFP: Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II (6/9/2010; collection)
The editor of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) seeks proposals for previously unpublished essays to appear …
When presented with a direct, perfunctory question about whether or not his film’s subject–a homosexual affair between two orthodox Jewish men–is “taboo,” director Haim Tabakman gives an equally direct and frank answer:
My dominant impression, walking out of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator Tw…er Robin Hood, was that it is nice to see Scott Grimes (closer to Party of Five mode than E.R. mode) getting work. My second thought …
