reminders of 9/11 in a city still on edge
Perhaps it’s not surprising that half a decade after 9/11, the PTSD of New Yorkers is beginning to show up on film… and now on DVD.
Month: October 2006
Lloyd Dobler and the spirit of Generation X
For those of us who don’t wanna sell anything processed or bought…
Sword of Honour (review)
A smart, luscious adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semiautobiographical story of the trials of one honest, moral man amidst the SNAFU milieu of Britain’s World War II military…
City of Men (review)
This is television to make you feel as if you’ve never seen television before. Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund reinvent the episodic series with verve…
8th & Ocean (review)
Perhaps we’re supposed to feel sorry to see this young dumbsters being taken advantage of by modeling agencies or poked and prodded by photographers and stylists; perhaps we’re supposed to laugh at them — I couldn’t work up the enthusiasm for either.
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I defend Robert Patrick. As if he can’t take care of himself…
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Don’t you need to know why Disney hates Orlando Bloom?
The Departed movie review: mean streets of Boston
This is the smartest kind of spectacular that an international remake can be: it picks up the clever threads of story from its source material and weaves them into another world in such a way that it’s hard to see how they didn’t spring from that world in the first place.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (review)
This is a sickening orgy of torture imagery and graphic physical mutilation that revels in the basest kind of cruelty. It is a remake that is beyond merely pointless: it is revolting…
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