Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — If Ever There Were a More Accurate Title…
Of the nine Academy Award nominees for Best Picture this year, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was a shocking addition. At the same time, if…
Reviews
We Need to Talk About Kevin — And Nature or Nurture
In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Eva Khatchadourian is a veritable Lady Macbeth from the opening scene that finds a youthful Eva in an…
Haywire — Action Fiction and Realism
From the cuts between time differentiated by the presence of bruises and broken bones, to the seamless transitions from black and white shootouts to crimson-tinted,…
Death After Death — Some Blathering Related to The Artist
It is difficult to recover from one’s death. It’s unnatural, for one. Death is supposed to be final—the full stop. And the promises it brings…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Check and Mate
Like the John Le Carre on which Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based we are introduced to the story media res as Control (John Hurt)…
Pariah — Being the Minority of a Minority
Driven by Adepero Oduye’s emotionally powerful performance, Pariah tells the story of Alike (Oduye), a seventeen-year-old high school student trying to navigate her surroundings…
Into the Abyss — Disordering Order
Warner Herzog’s newest documentary Into the Abyss is less about whether capital punishment should exist and more about why it does. Herzog’s opinion on lethal…
War Horse — Hi Yo Silver…Uh, Meh.
From its opening shot of a pastoral landscape in England, War Horse is a beautifully depicted tale of competition, determination, regret, and class –but…
Young Adult — An Awkward, Arrested Development
Ostensibly, Young Adult is a story of arrested development and perpetual adolescence; however, it’s not the comedy that the previews portend it to be. There…
Wendy and Lucy — Mobility, Past and Present
On her way to Alaska, “where they need people,” Wendy’s (Michelle Williams) journey gets derailed: her car breaks down, she gets busted for shoplifting, and…