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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

March 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT is being sold as a comedy and that shortchanges everyone. Based on the memoir by Kim Barker, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” about her time in the early 2000s as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, it is a trenchant look at media, politics, and the separate reality that… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, based on a true story, book to screen, journalism, network news, war, war correspondent

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

October 29, 2015 By Leave a Comment

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS is an oft told tale of political machinations played in the vacuum of the zero-sum game that is the electoral process in modern times.  In it, we are reminded, candidates are products, issues are what the spin-meisters dictate, and the public is there to provide the score card used by which… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bolivia, election, political consultant, politics

EAGLE EYE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

EAGLE EYE exploits paranoia about the invasion of personal privacy by technology with an entertaining  action fantasy that pushes all the right buttons. It’s not when the hero, Jerry Shaw (Shia LeBeouf) is presented with his driver’s license, past-due bills, or even video of himself outplaying his pals at poker in the back room of the… Read More »

FASTER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

FASTER sails through its first 90 minutes or so as a thrill-packed action flick. Riotously surreal and willfully so, it showcases Dwayne Johnson’s star power, not to mention his pecs. Glistening with sweat and straining beneath the flesh, they are the first image on screen. Johnson’s character this time is and ex-con Driver, the job… Read More »

LEVITY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LEVITY

Ed Solomon wrote the scripts for MEN IN BLACK and BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. He’s not the guy from whom you’d expect a serious, thoughtful, even intriguing script that wrestles with the theological and philosophical questions of redemption. And yet, with LEVITY, his directorial debut, that’s just what he’s done. The protagonist is Manual, with… Read More »

Tagged With: biblical, murder, parable, religion, theology

BAD SANTA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

In BAD SANTA, a film produced by the Coen Brothers and based on their original story, we have a holiday story for our times. One that dares to show us without pulling any punches the nightmare that all this enforced good cheer has become, that exposes the seamy underbelly of what the season has devolved… Read More »

THE ALAMO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s sad to think that people gave up their life’s blood defending and attacking The Alamo. The loss of human life is always a tragedy. Adding to that very real tragedy is that the film version commemorating that event is such a stinker.Now, any retelling of what happened way back in 1836 in San Antonio… Read More »

BAD NEWS BEARS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

My oh my, but what mess has been made of THE BAD NEWS BEARS. Not that it was ever a classic, except in a minor sense for fans of Tatum O’Neal and Walter Matthau, but what Richard Linklater, a man capable of producing works of unorthodox beauty and beautiful complexity such as WAKING LIFE, has… Read More »

THE SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Based on the 1960 film THE SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRESL OF HOW TO WIN WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHEATING!, which was, in turn, very loosely based on the 18th century play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, THE SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS never deviates for a moment from the textbook arc for tales such as these. Loser at life, love, and… Read More »

THE ASTRONAUT FARMER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

With THE ASTRONAUT FARMER, the Polish Brothers (Michael directing, Mark acting, and both writing the script) use a folksy veneer to their mythmaking that belies a sly sophistication, weaving together Joseph Campbell at his most profound with the spirit of The Little Engine That Could. The result is a film that explores not just the… Read More »

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