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September 2013

September 02, 2013

The Ultimate Life (Landon, Jr., 2013)

When we stop asking our films to save the lost while entertaining the justified and...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002)

One of the more interesting moments in The Bourne Identity comes about a quarter of...

August 25, 2013

Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

Given that admission, there's no real upside to admitting that Taxi Driver doesn't float my...

August 21, 2013

You’re Next (Wingard, 2013)

Making a horror movie must be a little like writing a sonnet. The form is...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013)

About thirty-five to forty minutes into The Great Gatsby, I started wondering if I was...

July 19, 2013

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (Hinojosa, 2012)

I did not intentionally watch Iceberg Slim on the week in which a man of...

July 18, 2013

Salò (Pasolini, 1975)

I can't say I wasn't warned.

July 10, 2013

Deuce Factor

It wasn't so much that there were a half-dozen movies as bad as or worse...

July 09, 2013

Terms and Conditions May Apply (Hoback, 2013)

I haven't been this depressed after a movie since An Inconvenient Truth.

July 08, 2013

CFP–Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume III

The editor of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema Volume I (Cambridge Scholars...

July 03, 2013

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Verbinski, 2003) — 10 Years Later

I'll probably never win over the skeptics, and that's okay, but ten years later, Pirates...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Some Girl(s) — (von Scherler Mayer, 2013)

An oddly engaging but ultimately unsatisfying endeavor, Some Girl(s) is best described as a cross...

June 16, 2013

Free China: The Courage to Believe (Perlman, 2011)

One of the more unfortunate side-effects of the polarization and politicization of American discourse is...

June 12, 2013

Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Vittoria, 2012)

"Do you feel safer?"

June 01, 2013

What Maisie Knew (McGehee and Siegel, 2013)

Kids see, hear, and understand as much as we fear and more than we let...

May 2013

May 19, 2013

Vito (Schwarz, 2011)

If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo's book, The Celluloid...

May 03, 2013

Iron Man 3 (Black, 2013)

The strange thing, the downright bizarre thing, about this quest is that Marvel Studios and...

May 01, 2013

Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita, 1958)

The same month that the Academy was handing best Foreign Film honors to Michael Haneke’s...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Pain & Gain (Bay, 2013)

"Is it just me, or is Michael Bay giving a deliberate middle finger to the...

April 19, 2013

Oblivion (Kosinski, 2013)

Oblivion may be one of those films that is easier to mock than to dislike....

April 18, 2013

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...

April 09, 2013

Exporting Love, Exporting Hate

One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans...

April 07, 2013

The Editor and The Dragon (Campbell and Clark)

In 1953, the Pulitzer Prize for was awarded to the editor of the Tabor City...

April 05, 2013

After Tiller (Shane & Wilson)

Abortion is not an abstraction.

April 02, 2013

A Fierce Green Fire (Kitchell, 2012)

Mark Kitchell's A Fierce Green Fire takes a longitudinal view, contextualizing arguments about global climate...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Remote Area Medical (Reichert & Zaman, 2013)

It is hard to think of a proclamation of Jesus that is harder to understand--or...

March 30, 2013

Venice Souvenir (Gaffin, 2013)

Comprised of dozens of short (one or two minute) vignettes, Venice Souvenir attempts to capture...

March 26, 2013

In America (Sheridan, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Between 1989 and 2003, Jim Sheridan was nominated for six Academy Awards. Three were for...

March 04, 2013

A Royal Affair (Arcel, 2012)

The themes of surrendering to a self-torturing, illicit passion is rote, but the theme of...

March 02, 2013

Searching for Sugar Man (Bendjelloul, 2012)

In sublimating every other theme to it, he ends up repressing the film's potential greatness...

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