Chocolate (review)
Alas that the most intriguing thing about this martial-arts kickfest is its wave-of-the-future release schedule.
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Dutch Junkies (review)
Two just-under-feature-length documentaries about the face of modern addiction.
Che (review)
You’ve seen the T-shirt — now see the movie. That seems to be attitude of the decriers of Steven Soderbergh’s portrait of the Argentinean freedom fighter/terrorist: that the filmmaker does not demonize his subject to the degree the decriers insist is necessary.
Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler
So you’ve seen the Tom Cruise *Valkyrie* and you’re wondering, Is that how it actually went down? Turns out, pretty much.
A Girl Cut in Two (review)
It’s billed as a ‘Hitchcockian thriller,’ but frankly I see nothing either Hitchcockian nor thrilling this same-old Gallic tale…
Slumdog Millionaire (review)
An enchanting movie about love and destiny and honor and perseverance and how a shitload of money cannot ever hope to measure up to them…
Let the Right One In (review)
You’ve never seen a vampire movie like this before — that I can promise you. There hasn’t *been* one like this before.
Television Under the Swastika (review)
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and doctors endorsing cigarettes. Turns out, though, that the 1950s were not the beginning of TV as a mass medium: that … more…
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) movie review: before the Wall fell
The ending can make or break a film. The Lives of Others, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, has one of the greatest final lines of dialogue that I’ve ever heard in a movie.
DVD mashup: a peek at peak oil with ‘Syriana’ and ‘The Deal’
Two thrillers you wish weren’t quite so thrilling, with their terrifying basis in reality…
