if you’re not reading my Film.com postings…
What I’m yakking about over at the new Film.com…
dvd mashup: real monsters: ‘Beowulf & Grendel’ and ‘The 13th Warrior’
Two very different adaptations of the ancient saga.
if you’re not reading my Film.com postings…
I’m posting twice a day at Film.com — are you reading it?
Infamous (review)
This is one of the best films of 2006 so far, and, ironic as it may sound, will be even better appreciated by those who also loved last year’s film.
Man of the Year (review)
Lacks all conviction in its would-be insurgent attitudes and lacks any courage in seeing through to a tough conclusion the political realities it pretends to attack.
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.
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.
