Letter America Dear Southwest Airlines, I’m writing to complain about the unfair way I was treated on a recent flight from San Francisco to Phoenix. ... More
David Cronenberg likes to get inside the minds and souls of his characters. In earlier films, he found a neatly direct route: Explode their heads (Scanners) or, more thoroughly, their entire bodies (The Fly). Perhaps then, beginning his newest, Eastern Promises, by sawing open the neck of a man seated at a barber shop adumbrates a more patient unveiling.
"America! Fuck, yeah!" It's almost impossible not to hear this refrain from Team America: World Police, drained of irony and played in the background of The Kingdom. But where Team America stars marionettes, the flesh-and-blood stars of The Kingdom dangle from the strings of predictable Hollywood do-good cliché.
Like his first disaster movie,
Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's latest,
The 11th Hour, lets us stare into his squinting, twinkling eyes as we perch on the deck of a doomed ship headed for an inevitable disaster wherein 90 percent of life will be lost.
The Bourne Ultimatum is a single global chase sequence, nearly two hours in length, with a tiny break about halfway through for a cappuccino.
The new documentary,Manufactured Landscapes, follows Edward Burtynsky on his photographic forays into the field and, in the process, becomes a damning critique of the current form of globalization...
MOVIE REVIEW: Offside
Boundaries, imagined and real, make Offside met
Astrophysicists tell us that every element in our solar system-gold, silver, carbon, etc.-is formed during the intense heat of supernovas. It might, therefore, take an astrophysicist, rather than a music historian, to best explain Edith Piaf.
An Unreasonable Man, the excellent documentary about Ralph Nader, is a tragedy in two acts. Directors Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan devote the first half to an overview of Nader's days as an admired consumer advocate in the '60s, '70s and '80s. The second tackles those sad and controversial days surrounding the 2000 and 2004 elections, when he was accused by Democrats and others on the left of being a "spoiler" who brought about the victory of George W Bush.
Joel Schumacher's convoluted and improbable The Number 23 stars Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, a man who becomes obsessed with a book and the number that is its title.
