For my readers out there who have no interest in seeing any film by the South Park creators, much less one that was almost rated NC 17 for puppet sexuality, then this review is not the review you need to read in order to decide what to do with your weekend.
For the rest of you, […]
This was a difficult review to write. The poster, Yahoo Movies, all imply that the star of the movie is Chris Cooper. That is both fact and exaggeration. Cooper is the character around whom all the events of the film orbit, but he is on screen a disappointingly small amount of time. […]
After watching the 1962-made (1964-released) original film, I wondered how terribly can modern Hollywood mess up this remake? Sure, plenty of stuff in that black and white craftwork was needless and frustrating, but the fantastic camerawork and twisty mind-bending direction is so cool! Fortunately, Silence of the Lambs’ helmer Jonathan Demme is at […]
As my friend and I said simultaneously upon leaving the theatre, Michael Moore is preaching to the choir. No one who should see this film will, and in my mind that seems to imply that they have something to fear. Thanks to our reliance on BBC for our news, my friends and I […]
By now you surely have heard about what this documentary is about. After hearing about the obese teenagers suing McDonald’s for their weight problem, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock decided to explore the idea of personal responsibility, the asserted nutritiousness of the fast food menu, and the insidious ways our modern lifestyle is bad for us […]
It is tempting to, and almost impossible not to, review the content of this film, rather than its many filmmaking merits. Robert McNamara, whose many accomplishments in life include 7 years as the Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, talks about war, politics, culpability, and the eleven lessons he learned that […]
Nothing at all against Cate Blanchett, but this is the kind of movie that I will utterly forget I ever saw within a year. Based on a true story, the terrible tale of Veronica Guerin’s campaign to root out the truth about the incredible drug problem Dublin was experiencing in the early nineties, is […]
Argh! Chris Rock is so funny! Why did he have to do this? I know why, but still. If you saw Rock’s brief segment in Bowling for Columbine, if not his regular stand-up, you know he’s an affable, positive man who calls the injustices against the people as he sees them. […]
Number one – with a bullet! If you don’t know, this is Michael Moore’s latest documentary, this time about the culture of violence in America, especially as per gun killing. Some terrifying statistics are reported in this film; I wish I could have recorded it to a hard disc in my head to […]
Between my awe at this film and the regrettable downfall of my cable modem service, I have been unable to share truly how impressed I was and am at this film. Opening the movie are some tight, gliding images of desolation and human suffering in Somalia, with the back story for the events of […]
