Anybody who truly cares about cinema should be in a state of extreme consternation about how the biz is evolving. I guess I should further say I’m preaching to those who like their movies on the big screen. In a theater. With a box of popcorn.
Read the entire articleNot being an aficionado of Asian monster films, nor of any monster films for that matter, I could make a really big mistake when hyperbolizing about “The Host.” I know that as soon as I open my big yap, some geeks, maybe the true believers over at Wild & Wooly Video, will be on my […]
Read the entire articleThings seem to be heating up in the Triangle. Frankly it is rarely otherwise when big developer with grande plans buys desolate property in a historic preservation district. Neighbors are wary. Developer wants his/her way.
Read the entire articleChris Rock’s latest film, “I Think I Love My Wife,” is about the most mundane of topics: Boredom in marriage. Yet there is a most artful subversion at play. Which subterfuge makes the movie more worthy — and fraught with a bit more meaning — than would appear on the surface.
Read the entire articleI’m not sure I totally understand this Albert Mohler fellow. He is obviously a man of strong faith. Even if he’s inclined to discredit anybody of equally strong spiritual belief, if that belief in any way wavers from what Mohler believes.
Read the entire articleIn “The Lives of Others,” Hauptmann Wiesler (Ulriche Mühe) is the paradigm of the perfect worker for the state. The state is East Germany, or whatever is its offical name before the Berlin Wall fell. The time is the late 80’s or early 90’s.
Read the entire articleIt is true that I am preternaturally inclined to be a liberal, almost defiantly a Democrat.
Read the entire articleThe Mama Shrew of American punditry is back at it. Long, lean, looker Ann Coulter never met a slur she wouldn’t clutch to her breasts for flashing in her next public pontification. It’s presidential election time so the willowy, blonde, right wing hatemonger will be more than out and about. Unless, of course, she stews […]
Read the entire articleDavid Fincher, yes, you, the director of “Zodiac,” listen up. Repeat after me: Less is more. Again: Less is more. One last time, so you’ll remember: Less is more.
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