THE DANCER UPSTAIRS is a stunning exploration of passion and delusion, and not just the romantic kind, though the power of Eros is seen here as just as treacherous as the political backdrop of the story. Set in an unnamed South American country in a time specified only as the recent past, an honest man,… Read More »
THE ITALIAN JOB
THE ITALIAN JOB has its share of action, but strictly speaking, this re-telling of the 60s flick of the same name, is a frothy caper story. The framework is the intricate plotting of not one, but two heists, with the real focus on the motley crew involved in pulling it off. It begins in the… Read More »
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
Jim Carrey wants it both ways. He wants to be the heir apparent to The Three Stooges, but he also wants to tug at our heartstrings. Until now, hes divided those aspirations between films, the silliness of ME, MYSELF, AND IRENE and the carefully calibrated corn of THE MAJESTIC. Perhaps sensing that his audience has… Read More »
WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE
I don’t usually hold with films made by committee. They tend to be a study in the blandness of desperation to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Not so with WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE, made by The Video Activist Network, a collective of left-leaning committed filmmakers. The reason is that this particular way of filmmaking… Read More »
THE CORPORATION
Fans of conspiracy theories will be sorely disappointed by the incisive and disconcerting documentary, THE CORPORATION. Whatever dark and paranoid fantasies that contingent has spun over the years about a secret cabal running the world, the facts that filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan bring to the screen are worse. Instead of a… Read More »
MIRACLES — THE COMPLETE SERIES
The only bad thing about the release (finally) of the television series MIRACLES on DVD is that it becomes all the more apparent how criminally short-sighted ABC was giving such a raw deal to this enigmatic and challenging series during its all too brief run on that network. Seeing the seven episodes that were never… Read More »
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