Warning Shot
Al Gore’s compelling ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ confronts our growing global warming crisis Back in the spring of 1992, I caught …
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Elemental Images
‘Water’ sheds light on the plight of India’s many widows Water completes writer/director Deepa Mehta’s elemental trilogy that began with …
Fever Dreams: If I Were a Studio Executive for a Summer
Reality television has given us idols and inventors, dancers and models. Wives are swapped and race can be altered. But …
New X-Factor: Brett Ratner Takes Over the X-Men Franchise With Entertaining Results
Bryan Singer was an X-factor when he took the helm of the first X-Men film. He was a smart indie …
The Alternative – Hearing Voices
Monday afternoons I teach an afterschool writing class for InkTank to a group of teenage boys. The assignment appealed to …
Badly Drawn Boy: Max Minghella Fails to Compel in ‘Art School Confidential’
At this point in the brief career of Max Minghella, son of director Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold …
Big Mamas, Sexless Queens & ‘Kinky Boots’
Chiwetel Ejiofor is the latest black man to wear a dress on the big screen In 1979, Prince proudly proclaimed, …
All of Us United: Director Paul Greengrass’ compelling ‘United 93’ revisits 9/11
Like many people around the country, I watched the signature events of 9/11 unfold in a surreal time frame on …
The Alternative – Answer the Question of U
Long before leading the Revolution, briefly giving up his slave name, using his facial hair to brand himself a corporate …
Beneath the Underneath
The annual Best of Underneath Cincinnati spotlights area independent filmmakers “In other words, I am three.” So began Beneath the …
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