Review: ‘Waltz With Bashir’
The yellow eyes of the dogs, one of the first images in Ari Folman’s animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, sear …
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Kross-Bearer
So much of the intellectual discourse about The Reader has focused on considerations about the film’s Holocaust angle. Is it …
A Curious Case For Adaptation Readers
Each year, the multiplexes offer more translations from page to screen. A quick glance at 2008’s literary screen gems features …
Review: ‘Frost/Nixon’
I´ve never really been a fan of Ron Howard. I grew up watching him, first as Opie on The Andy …
Review: ‘Milk’
Film certainly has a soft spot for lovable losers. How else can you explain the success of Charlie Chaplin’s Little …
Kevin Smith Makes a Porno
A recent Rolling Stone article entitled “What’s So Funny? The New Golden Age Of Comedy” dubs the current trend in …
Review: ‘Rachel Getting Married’
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married, and like many American families today, broken and blended branches of the tree poke …
Review: ‘The Duchess’
Georgiana (Keira Knightley), the Duchess of Devonshire, is reported to have been a progressive woman during her lifetime. The personal …
Dead Men
Chances are audiences will recog nize something familiar in Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais). He’s a sad sack, a man with …
Breaking The Silence
The new Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder arrived with advance buzz about the potentially off-putting use of blackface by Robert …
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