Viceroy’s House movie review: are we condemned to repeat this?
Snappy, snappish historical drama about the partition of India rings with sly humor, dry cynicism, and a smack of relevance for today’s divisive politics.
Gandhi
Suffragette movie review: then they fight you (LFF 2015)
The first feature film ever about the women who fought for their right to vote is glorious. It is angry and passionate and defiant. It is essential.
watch it: cop pepper-sprays seated, nonviolent Occupy protesters
It’s a special Saturday Web Video of the Day, because everyone needs to see this, and it can’t wait till Monday.
wtf: I wasn’t looking for ‘Gandhi’ in ‘Twilight’ — were you?
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks to The Wall Street Journal about all the mean meanies who make her feel bad because her scripts for Twilight movies — her work includes Twilight and New Moon as well as the upcoming Eclipse — kinda suck. And not in the cool vampire way. Waaah!: “It’s tough,” Ms. Rosenberg said … more…
December 11: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’ve been turned into a frog and know you won’t be able to see over the seat in front of you, not even with a kiddie booster seat. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection … more…
Gandhi (review)
Director Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi is one of the most ambitious biographical films ever made, encompassing not just more than half a century of one man’s life but also one country’s struggle for independence. Ben Kingsley is a marvel as Mohandas K. — later called Mahatma — Gandhi, doing a remarkable job of conveying the soft-spoken determination of a man who would come to inspire a messianic fervor among his people and convincingly aging himself 55 years with little more than alterations in his posture and way of carrying himself.
