My Life as Abraham Lincoln — Structure, Memory, Identity
Dense and beautifully shot, My Life as Abraham Lincoln is as intentionally confused as is its main character, Cindy (Carolyn Luft), who attempts to navigate…
Weekend Arena: 8/3
Are you ready for another remake? I suppose the real question is whether or not we have a choice. Regardless, Total Recall gets a PG-13 face…
In Darkness — A Chilling, Yet Familiar, Reminder of Atrocity
The based-on-a-true-story, Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, In Darkness, positions us just there: in the sewers with raw humanity and inhumanity unrelentingly clashing in…
Date Night | Beasts of the Southern Wild (as Autobiography)
To be perfectly frank, this is some of the realest shit I ever wrote.
Weekend Arena: 7/27
The Watch: Tower Heist has made me wary of Ben Stiller movies, but the recent New Yorker article about his attention to script detail and…
First Man Files Lawsuit over The Dark Knight Rises Shooting, Doesn’t Understand Irony
As numerous news outlets have shown us over the past week, James Holmes entered a Colorado theater during the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises….
The Dark Knight Rises — The Circuitous Trilogy (No Spoilers)
Christopher Nolan has delivered in his final installment to the Dark Knight trilogy, and he does it with a solid, reflective narrative that – for…
The Weekend Arena: 7/20 — Dark Knight Rises Edition
I’ll assume other movies are opening this weekend, but none of them will be watched. We should probably also mourn the fates of any film…
Date Night | The Dark Knight Rises (@ Midnight in DC)
Image via worldofsuperheroes.com We wanted to see all three. Last week, the Liberian Girl found an ad. It said the AMC in Georgetown was showing…
Magic Mike — Delegitimizing the American Dream
Despite Alex Pettyfer’s presence as Adam, Magic Mike is not about the beginning of a male stripper who is down on his luck and just…