Dawn of the Planet of the Apes movie review: people get ready
A magnificent science fiction drama, and a beautiful one. Wonderfully radical for the simple fact that it is ruled by principled ideas.
Jason Clarke
Swerve trailer: sounds a little different, but looks awfully familiar
Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve heard Jason Clarke’s own Australian accent. Other than that, not sure there’s much interesting here.
White House Down review: I’d rather be in Philadelphia
It lifts an embarrassing number of beats from Die Hard… but Channing Tatum is no Bruce Willis.
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Lawless (review)
An outsider’s look at a unique moment in American history, the gigantic failed social experiment of Prohibition: withering yet hugely engaging and ringing with unspoken critical parallels with today’s “war on drugs.”
