Some Girl(s) — (von Scherler Mayer, 2013)
An oddly engaging but ultimately unsatisfying endeavor, Some Girl(s) is best described as a cross between Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and David Mamet's Oleanna.
Category: Reviews
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Free China: The Courage to Believe (Perlman, 2011)
One of the more unfortunate side-effects of the polarization and politicization of American discourse is that we've seriously devalued the word "persecution."
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Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Vittoria, 2012)
"Do you feel safer?"
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What Maisie Knew (McGehee and Siegel, 2013)
Kids see, hear, and understand as much as we fear and more than we let ourselves admit.
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Vito (Schwarz, 2011)
If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo’s book, The Celluloid Closet, may well have been your first introduction to … not gay people, exactly, but… Continue reading "Vito (Schwarz, 2011)"
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Iron Man 3 (Black, 2013)
The strange thing, the downright bizarre thing, about this quest is that Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures have wagered a lot of money on the proposition (if the film itself is any indication) that the audience won't care in the least whether superhero movies have stupid, artsy contrivances like themes
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Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita, 1958)
The same month that the Academy was handing best Foreign Film honors to Michael Haneke’s Amour, The Criterion Collection released another foreign film examining aging and death, Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 The Ballad of Narayama.
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Pain & Gain (Bay, 2013)
"Is it just me, or is Michael Bay giving a deliberate middle finger to the Coen Brothers?"
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Oblivion (Kosinski, 2013)
Oblivion may be one of those films that is easier to mock than to dislike. It is certainly easier to criticize than to not enjoy.
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Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (Bernstein, 2012)
Ungerer ties his bold proclamation that "children should be traumatized" to his artistic vision that pushed children's fiction beyond the benign and banal.