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April 2012

April 10, 2012

The Waiting Room (Nicks, 2012)

Peter Nicks's The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side...

April 07, 2012

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (Chiang, 2012)

"The Tea Party does not represent this district, I do."

April 03, 2012

Turn Me on Dammit! (Jacobsen, 2011)

I think the thing that may disarm some viewers who are predisposed to dislike or...

April 01, 2012

Surviving Progress (Roy & Crooks, 2012)

Six years after An Inconvenient Truth, it is depressing, maddening, and probably a little counterproductive...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Mirror Mirror (Singh, 2012)

But Mirror Mirror has Julia Roberts in it, so it must be a Julia Roberts...

March 25, 2012

Miss Representation (Newsom, 2011)

My review of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Miss Representation, and some meditations about how women are...

March 24, 2012

Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies (Nichols, 2010)

Bill Nichols’s Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies is a textbook that not only...

March 24, 2012

Art is…The Permanent Revolution (Kirchheimer, 2012)

Art is…The Permanent Revolutionhas a simple basic structure. It segues between philosophical ruminations about the...

March 10, 2012

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (Berinstein, 2012)

Dori Berinstein’s valentine to the iconic Broadway star is, like its subject matter, always affable

March 02, 2012

Undefeated (Lindsay and Martin, 2011)

The film tells the story of Bill Courtney, a high school football coach and his...

February 2012

February 19, 2012

Things I Don’t Understand (Spaltro, 2011)

In a new episode of The Thin Place at Film Geek Radio, Ken and Todd...

February 15, 2012

The Hours (Daldry, 2002) — 10 Years Later

Stephen Daldry has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director three times, and...

February 12, 2012

Antwone Fisher (Washington, 2002) — 10 Years Later

Which brings me, roundabout, to Derek Luke. That it is Antwone's story means that Luke...

February 04, 2012

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Kwapis, 2005)

The acting is terrific. Amber Tamblyn is very, very good. America Ferrara is, quite simply,...

February 03, 2012

Big Miracle (Kwapis, 2012)

Big Miracle is the kind of film you dread getting assigned to write about as...

February 02, 2012

Albert Nobbs (Garcia, 2011)

In theory, Albert Nobbs is close to my idea of a perfect movie. In practice,...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

About Schmidt (Payne, 2002) — 10 Years Later

I am not sure what it says about Alexander Payne's tragicomedy that the first thing...

January 20, 2012

Red Tails (Hemingway, 2012)

Red Tails is an earnest, straight forward, somewhat generic, but easily likable war-action movie that...

January 07, 2012

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)

Fincher’s direction is smooth and smart...

January 04, 2012

Wit (Nichols, 2001) — 10 Years Later

My relationship to cancer has changed much in the last ten years.

December 2011

December 25, 2011

In the Bedroom (Field, 2001) — 10 Years Later

After viewing In the Bedroom for the first time, I am left with one emotion that...

December 23, 2011

2011 Top 10

At various points in the year, I considered five different films for the top slot....

December 13, 2011

Making the Boys (Robey, 2011)

Making the Boys feels at times like it is seven potentially great documentaries struggling to...

December 05, 2011

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Marks & Shane, 2011)

Being Elmo is good.

November 2011

November 29, 2011

I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953)

I Confess (1953) is an Alfred Hitchcock film that has flown under the radar since...

November 20, 2011

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I (Condon, 2011)

While I do not count myself amongst the franchise's devotees—I have read the first book...

November 20, 2011

Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)

Over at The Thin Place, the podcast I host at Film Geek Radio, Todd Truffin...

November 07, 2011

Of God and Gucci (Rennar, 2011)

Part art therapy, part legal document (it contains footage of the mediation resulting from the...

November 05, 2011

The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)

It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me...

November 04, 2011

Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)

When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes...

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