<em>Minority Report</em> (Spielberg, 2002) — 10 Years Later
May 17, 2012 – 7:56 pm | No Comment

I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being. 

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Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)
September 14, 2010 – 10:56 am | No Comment
<em>Of Gods and Men</em> (Beauvois, 2010)

I was glad that I saw Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men on the same day of the Toronto International Film Festival in which I saw Miral. The films, perhaps, balance one another, not in …

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)
September 13, 2010 – 2:30 pm | No Comment
<em>Never Let Me Go</em> (Romanek, 2010)

The word I got from a friend was that director Mark Romanek and the film entourage got beat up pretty badly during the Q&A following Never Let Me Go‘s gala presentation on Saturday night, so …

Jucy (Alston, 2010)
September 11, 2010 – 11:28 pm | No Comment
<em>Jucy</em> (Alston, 2010)

Jucy is a film that celebrates female friendship. The title comes from the names of the two main characters, Jackie and Lucy, whose (we are told frequently enough to almost be homophobic) platonic friendship is …

The Way (Estevez, 2010)
September 10, 2010 – 11:30 pm | 4 Comments
<em>The Way</em> (Estevez, 2010)

I became acquainted with grief at a very young age.

Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)
September 10, 2010 – 10:35 am | No Comment
<em>Inside Job</em> (Ferguson, 2010)

Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job helped helped open the 2010 Toronto International Festival, garnering an enthusiastic response from a mostly sympathetic crowd. As one would expect from a follow up from the director of the terrific …

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (Rebello, 1990)
September 7, 2010 – 11:09 pm | One Comment
<em>Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho</em> (Rebello, 1990)

If I had to review Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho in one word, it would be “enjoyable.”