Finding Woody: Allen’s Play It Again, Sam
1971's Play it Again, Sam previews how Woody Allen would soon elevate his comic acumen into masterful studies of tragic romance.
Film Reviews
Reviews of movies
Idlewild: Act Like You Know
Trust OutKast to steal the familiarity out of a passage that has long-since been deemed cliché and to grant it new meaning.
Jandek on Corwood: When the Private is Public, and Still Unknown
Jandek on Corwood profiles a musician whose personal work has continued to mystify, scare and inspire, with music written by a recluse who has truly been an outsider.
The Departed: Less than Perfect, but All is Forgiven
In The Departed, nobody rides for free, and very few survive. And in this knock-down drag-out between a character and his environment, you should put your money on the neighborhood.
On the Road with Little Miss Sunshine
The ensemble cast of Little Miss Sunshine embraces the absurdity of family life, from Proust to pornography.
The Illusionist: The Bamboozle has Captured Us
How often we become mindless sheep who find entertainment in the weirdest of places. A review of The Illusionist.
The Jesus Video
Essentially, the Jesus movie consists of nothing more than a pretty-boy Shakespearean with a prominent forehead wandering aimlessly around Israel and muttering half-heartedly about eternity while a bunch of people with disheveled hair act as if they are in awe of his prowess.
Germany Year Zero
History is constantly torn between science and art. Sometimes, people try to resolve this dilemma by pulling art, and fiction in particular, toward the scientific, sometimes, by stressing the artistic side of science, and, sometimes, by calling it a void argument. But how do we avoid a question inscribed in the ambiguity of the very …