The Imposter — Our Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses
The Imposter does not bait the audience with a mystery as to whether or not the man in the trailer is actually Nicholas Barclay, a…
The Weekend Arena: 7/13
As we count down the weeks until The Dark Knight Rises and get our superhero fix through webslinging teenagers, we might as well embrace a documentary…
Goon — The Best Sports Movie of the Year (If we were in Canada)
The incisor that slowly falls from the hockey player’s mouth, just after his blood forms Pollack-like droplets on the ice, casts Goon as a film…
The Rum Diary — An Uninspired Play on Fans of the Mythical Hunter S. Thompson
The Rum Diary is a movie full of missed moments, seemingly at times of ranting to its audience. At the same time, this film falls…
The Weekend Arena: 7/6
Spiderman will clearly be the biggest draw this weekend unless you are part of the millions of Katy Perry fans who have never been able to…
21 Jump Street — Social Hierarchies and Funny Anachronisms
In one sense, 21 Jump Street is retelling of The Prince and the Pauper wherein economic disparities are replaced by the gulf between the socially admired…
Ted — Perpetual Adolescence and Crudeness
From the beginning of Ted, writer / director Seth MacFarlane blends fairy tale and nostalgia into one film. MacFarlane-as-baritone narrator indicts the people of world…
The Weekend Arena: 6/29
Over this weekend, we will learn to be careful what we wish for, know that even strippers can become movie stars, wonder if we have…
Moonrise Kingdom — The Dangers of Conformity and the Anxiety over Social Order
Ostensibly, everything on the fictional island of New Penzance is out of a Normal Rockwell painting. The colors are clean, the children are adorned with…
The King’s Speech — A History of the Devalued Politician
The King’s Speech is well acted, (characteristically by Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth, who won the Oscar he should have won for A Single Man)…