Money for Nothing: and the D’uh for Free
Money for Nothing is the latest documentary to cast a stone on the many culprits in bringing about the Great Recession. While it does a…
Dustin Freeley
The Trials of Muhammad Ali: Too Short for such a Life
Directed by Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground), The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a brief film that plays more like a precis of Ali’s life…
Mission Park — Too Familiar to Be Isolated
Among brilliant moments are those that we have seen many times before.
Lovelace — Hardly Goes Deep Enough
There is too much too familiar and too much lost in this precis of the porno chic era.
Mud — When “Love” Becomes its own Character
Matthew McConaughey turns in his third great performance in a row in a tale about our cultural anxieties over love.
Dark Tourist — In the Mind of Madness
From director Suri Krishnamma, Dark Tourist – also known as The Grief Tourist – is a psychological thriller that explores the heart of American ennui…
Red 2 — Throwing Every Idea to a Wall
If only they would stay retired…
The Conjuring — What Haunts Us
An antithetical horror story.
Bond Retrospective 17: GoldenEye
After a six year break, GoldenEye became the rebirth of the Bond franchise, this time featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007. While License to Kill marked…
The Canyons — Ellis, Schrader, and Nihilism
The Bret Easton Ellis trope of masturbatory nihilism is obvious in the first few moments of The Canyons upon Ryan’s rhetorical interrogative, “does anyone really…