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April 2011

April 08, 2011

Soul Surfer (McNamara, 2011)

UPDATE: A podcast on Soul Surfer at The Thin Place.

March 2011

March 25, 2011

Miral (Schnabel, 2010)

Julian Schnabel's latest film brings to the screen the autobiographical novel of Palestinian journalist Rula...

January 2011

January 10, 2011

Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)

Were he still alive today, I can't help thinking that Black Swan would've been the...

December 2010

December 14, 2010

The Tourist (von Donnersmarck, 2010)

The shots of Venice were dazzlingly beautiful in The Tourist. I would really love to...

November 2010

November 19, 2010

Cool It (Timoner, 2010)

Funny thing, though, once the film exonerates Lomborg from the mutually exclusive charges that he...

November 06, 2010

John Sayles Interview

“You know, you can’t make a movie about war and occupation without it being about...

November 04, 2010

The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010)

Fresh on the heels of winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award at the Toronto International...

October 2010

October 15, 2010

Conviction (Goldwyn, 2010)

The pitch sounds like a “can’t miss” movie, and Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, and Melissa...

October 08, 2010

Stone (Curran, 2010)

Director John Curran made two perhaps inadvertently telling comments to the Toronto Film Festival audience...

September 2010

September 14, 2010

The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)

So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing...

August 2010

August 09, 2010

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)

The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but...

September 2009

September 21, 2009

TIFF 2009 Summary: Chalk

No pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of...

September 16, 2009

Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)

Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show...

September 15, 2009

Agora (Amenábar, 2009)

Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog.

September 13, 2009

Bright Star (Campion, 2009)

Jane Campion's Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It...

September 11, 2009

Vision (von Trotta, 2009)

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that...

September 10, 2009

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with...

August 2009

August 31, 2009

Equiano in Africa (Young, 2008)

It is an eleven minute short film with Equiano's text read over images of contemporary...

August 29, 2009

Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006)

To call Lake of Fire uncompromisingly sober is to call a roundhouse kick to the...

August 16, 2009

Dis-Enchanted: Female Power and Authority in Ella Enchanted and Kill Bill:Volume 2

Originally delivered as an address to the Midwest Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM)...

August 14, 2009

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The main reason I'm posting about the show, however, is that noted scholar and Buffy...

June 2009

June 20, 2009

Persepolis (Paronnaud, 2007)

A lot of films can break your heart--a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.

May 2009

May 31, 2009

Bride & Prejudice (Chadha, 2004)

Where to start? Well, I finally understand those singing puppets in the Fandango commercials.

May 27, 2009

The Broadway Melody (1929 Best Picture Winner)

In a nutshell, a must see for cinophiles. Others might consider taking a pass.

May 19, 2009

You Can’t Take It With You (Capra, 1938)

The situation is timeless, but the setting is very much of the moment.

May 16, 2009

The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle, 1937)

I will admit that the film has the sort of schmaltzy feel (aided by the...

May 16, 2009

Star Trek (Abrams, 2009)

I don't imagine kids running out of Abrams' movie and staring at the nighttime sky,...

May 08, 2009

The Island (Bay, 2005)

Sean Bean and McGregor get tied together through the barbs. We are all interconnected. It’s...

May 07, 2009

Les Miserables (Bernard, 1934)

Victor Hugo's novel is a timeless classic which has been retold and well loved since...

May 04, 2009

Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972)

The Criterion DVD had an interview with Neil Labute talking about how Rohmer influenced him,...