Reviews
Captain America – Perhaps It’s Best Not to Know Who Went Before Steve Rogers
In an earlier post, I tackled the connection between Steve Rogers’ transformation into Captain America as a government sponsored PED initiative, and while I still stand by that assertion – and ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Clever Homage or an Experiment With Motion Capture?
Should a 2011 prequel that resembles its 1968 sequel be hailed for paying homage to its predecessor, most notably with a cultishly referential line like “Take your hands off me, ...
Crazy, Stupid, Love – Not to be Confused with Eat, Pray, Meh
Take a couple that has been married for twenty five years. Add a dash of midlife crisis until it yields infidelity and divorce. Slather the wife with remorse for the ...
Attack the Block – By Far the Best Alien Movie this Week
With the rash of alien-invasion films over the past few years, it’s not surprising that two such films battled it out for the top spot at the box office during ...
Gasland – Drink Bottled Water or Take Your Chances with “Some Bizarre Scientific Experiments”
There’s plenty to be said for Gasland, the Oscar-nominated, 2010 documentary from Josh Fox, who grew up and currently lives on the Marcellus Shale, “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” ...
Beats, Rhymes, and Life – An Iceberg Ahead
Thanks to True Hollywood Story and Behind the Music, watching music-centered biopics and documentaries is often akin to watching Titanic in that you are relegated to waiting for the boat to crash into an iceberg ...
Man on Wire – Between Benevolence & Tragedy
There is something compelling about Man on Wire, the 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, that would have not been as such had it been released closer to the time ...
Bully – A Mishmash of Nihilistic Pornography
It feels a bit ironic to say that Larry Clark, the director of Kids, Wassup Rockers, and Ken Park, failed to push Bully as far as it could go. It ...
Horrible Bosses – The Tether’s Tighter When There Are Fewer Options
As a waiter, I once had a manager approach a table to castigate a young woman for having no palate because she sent back a moderately expensive bottle of ...
Rubber – The Difference Between Absurdism and Absurdity is the Difference Between Satire and Schlock
“All great films without exceptions contain an element of ‘no reason,’” and for this notion I give writer / director Quentin Dupieux credit. There is truth to the theory that ...
