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…
Once Upon a Time …
Imagine that somewhere in the world of Celebrity, there is no natural selection. Celebrities – the inhabitants of Celebrity – don’t perish, but when they…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Perils of Time Travel and Why the Harry Potter Franchise Ended in 2004
The wash of posters in subways, on busses and taxis that declare “It all ends” on July 15thmight portend an earlier than anticipated end of…
Charting the Career Quality of Directors
This graphical breakdown of career director arcs over on Into the Abyss is pretty damn fantastic. What author Todd Miro did was compile all the Rotten Tomatoes scores for…