Something’s Gonna Live (Raim, 2010)
Does the film community do a better job than the larger American community at respecting its elder statesmen?
Author: kenmorefield
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La Source (Shen, 2012)
Everyone thinks they would be more generous if they had just a little more.
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The Law in These Parts (Alexandrowicz 2011)
What is the difference been "occupied" and "held" territories?
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The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass, 2004)
Assassins don't kill people. Corrupt bureaucrats who control assassins kill people.
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Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) — 10 Years Later
The quickest and easiest way to annoy a fan of Far From Heaven, I suppose, is to say something like, "Yes, I know it is a Douglas Sirk homage, I just don't know that Douglas Sirk's films are all that great to begin with."
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Emma, Merida, and the Female Bildungsroman
In his critical reception history for the novel in the Bedford edition, Alistair Duckworth notes that "feminist voices" were seldom heard championing Austen prior to the 1970s
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The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)
As I've acknowledged elsewhere, the Batman of this series of films is not the same character/hero I grew up with, and that complicates my reactions, making it harder (though, I hope, not impossible) to separate my disappointment from my judgment. That's not all of it, though, or I should have liked Rises more than The Dark Knight, and I'm not sure I did (even if I did judge it a better film).
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The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008)
In social media I quipped that I thought The Dark Knight was essentially a Saw movie with marginally less gore. That's a deliberate overstatement but not by too much.
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Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
Are Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) supposed to be sympathetic?
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Road to Perdition (Mendes, 2002) — 10 Years Later
Road to Perdition was not officially Paul Newman's last movie. He did some television work and Pixar's Cars after Perdition was released, but it looks and feels very much like a curtain call...or a torch passing.