Film School (review)
Tensions and emotions run high, but this ain’t no “reality” game show: these are talented, ambitious people whose only opponents are themselves.
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Kyle XY: The Complete First Season — Declassified (review)
Actually deals in a refreshingly frank way with the wide variety of adolescent experiences, from making mistakes about having sex to coming to terms with religious faith. Still, it’s likely to appeal only to teens…
Moral Orel: The Unholy Version: Volume 1 (review)
Every single one of these 15, 15-minute episodes across two discs is an outrageous satire on the absurdity of dogma and the terrifying power of unquestioning faith.
the BBC goes WB with ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Hex’
Robin Hood: bad (except for one Guy). Hex: devilishly good.
Knocked Up (review)
The problem is not that *Knocked Up* is “liberal” because it’s about casual sex and having a baby out of wedlock. The problem is that it is horribly conservative about embracing and enjoying an adult version of sexuality that has moved beyond dorm-room-esque groping.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (review)
If you can stand a devastating indictment of how the Native Americans were thoroughly fucked over by the European settlers on their land, and you can’t bother yourself with Dee Brown’s book of the same name, then this is an excellent, searingly unsentimental second best.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (review)
Oh, thank the gods. Thank crazy Walt Disney’s head in a cryogenic freezer. Thank the army of producers and FX geeks and writers and cast and studio execs and focus-group gurus and everyone else who made this prepackaged, ready-for-synergy-marketing, lowest-common-denominator junk cinema the most cheesalicious, escape-a-riffic it could be.
Robson Arms: The Complete First Season (review)
A divorced mom and her schoolage son. The greaseball super. The newlyweds keeping secrets from each other. The Chinese-American extended family who runs the convenience store in the lobby. They’re just a few of the denizens of Robson Arms, a Vancouver apartment building faded from its former elegance but still home to an eclectic group … more…
Tribeca ’07: The Gates (review)
You will hear, Let them eat gates. I can’t imagine a better choice for the closing-night film of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival: The Gates — a stunning, beautiful, deeply moving documentary about the art project by installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude — will have its world premiere on Saturday night with a gala screening. … more…
Tribeca ’07: The Cake Eaters (review)
You asked me to marry you, and then you took off without saying good-bye. Three men, three women, and a whole lotta tender secrets, aching desire, and broken hearts fill up the directorial debut of actor Mary Stuart Masterson — so much so that what seems at first like a lean, spare psychic space in … more…
