There will not be a more audacious, more theologically complex film this or any other year than 9. Melding spirituality with science, this animated post-apocalyptic fantasy suffuses the two seemingly opposite disciplines into a rich synthesis that favors the asking of a question over whether or not there is an answer that the asker is… Read More »
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ZOMBIELAND
In ZOMBIELAND, the living dead, cannibals, of course, have overrun the U S of A, and while that is a bad thing, at least they have gotten one young man out of the house. On one level, this is a tale of that young mans search for love and the family he always wanted, but… Read More »
INVENTION OF LYING, THE
THE INVENTION OF LYING is a wildly funny flick that never sacrifices its considerable humor, nor its even more considerable acuity when it comes to parsing human nature. A world without falsehood, or even a word for it, or for truth, for that matter, is the conceit at work, and co-writer and star Ricky Gervais… Read More »
INFORMANT!, THE
There is something poignantly human in the way that everyone in Steven Soderberghs INFORMANT!, comedy of corporate greed and earnest FBI investigation, so completely believes in what they want to see going right in front of their eyes. The kicker is that the prime mover in all of this, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), is so… Read More »
EXTRACT
There is a poetic, if not necessarily gentle, justice to Mike Judges paean to the working man and woman, EXTRACT. Not all of them are smart, but they all have an affinity for their chosen field, and a willingness to go all the way to achieve their respective dreams. Its bedrock American values skewed through… Read More »
JULIE & JULIA
If Julia Child had not chosen the right moment to powder her nose at an embassy party in Paris, she might never have met Simone Beck, and there might never have been the classic cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. If Julie Powell, at the end of a particularly trying day as a government… Read More »
TRANSFORMERS — REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
One day, MichaelBay will fulfill his destiny and perhaps his fondest wish and make a film that is nothing but big explosions. With TRANFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, he has come very close. This benighted cacophony is a painful blend of overproduced action and shameless exposition. The sense of fun found in the original is… Read More »
COUPLES RETREAT
You cant fault people for wanting to take a trip to French Polynesia on someone elses dime. The water is so very blue, the sunsets are so very spectacular, the palms swaying the trade winds are so very alluring. And yet, as Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn sat down to write the screenplay set there,… Read More »
CRUDE
Click here to listen to the interview with Joe Berlinger (17:47).The best moment in Joe Berlingers documentary CRUDE is when a slick Florida lawyer, attempting to make Chevrons case that it isnt responsible for the environmental catastrophe in the Ecuadorian Amazon mis-speaks. Eduardo Reis Veiga is going over, point-by-point, how Chevron cleaned up the jungle.… Read More »
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN is a competently made thriller that attempts to make up in panache what it lacks in credibility. It fails. Taking a distinctly right-wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the… Read More »
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