WWII in HD (review)
The name is a little misleading. These 10 45-minute episodes aren’t just in HD: they’re in color. Hardly anyone even knew most of this footage existed, and it is amazing to see.
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question of the day: What untold stories about women deserve to be made as a movie?
My Week in Women column this week features a video in which 82 female filmmakers discuss what kind of film they’d make with an unlimited budget. It got me thinking about a script that I’ve been thinking about writing for years, a true story that was coincidentally in the news this week. I’ll repeat myself … more…
February 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but soldiers in gas masks have your town surrounded and will shoot on sight if you try to leave. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
Up in the Air movie review: you are not your frequent-flyer miles
There is a thrill of recognition to *Up in the Air* — and a horror of recognition, too…
August 21: 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’re in the Nazi-killing business, and business is booming. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Inglourious Basterds this weekend?” … more…
Inglourious Basterds (review)
Only Quentin Tarantino — cinema’s bad boy, the film geek who’s film-geekier than thou — would have the balls to state, as *Inglourious Basterds* comes to a close, that this could well be his masterpiece.
Good (review)
No actor has ever looked less comfortable in a Nazi uniform than Viggo Mortensen does…
Miracle at St. Anna (review)
I have to confess that I’m not entirely sure what the ‘miracle’ at St. Anna is meant to be.
Flags of Our Fathers (review)
Half bitter and harsh, half propagandistic and hagiographic, this is the love child of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Pearl Harbor,’ too sentimental to be intellectually satisfying but too tart to serve as melodrama.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (review)
Just wait a minute before you call Godwin on this movie…
