To criticize movie violence is the surest way to be branded a scold, a moralist, a worrywart who refuses to understand that movies are not real. As someone who often revels in the visceral thrills of cinematic action and the bloodthirsty satisfactions of dramatic vengeance, I’m not inclined to fit that stereotype. But I also [...]
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Film Comment: “Kick-Ass”
Posted in Film, tagged Arts, Kick-Ass, Movies on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lives of Others
Posted in Film, tagged Quentin Tarrantino on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Film Review The Lives of Others The recent film “The Lives of Others” is one of the best films I’ve seen in a long, long, time. So often my experience with films that have “buzz” is that all the praise being heaped upon the film is so much flim-flam. I remember a number of years [...]
Lost In Translation
Posted in Film, tagged Bill Murray, Film, Lost In Translation, Scarlett Johanson, Sophia Coppola on October 11, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Film Review Lost In Translation America has always had a myth of itself as large and unruly. In this myth men are always cowboys or Jedi knights who ride off into the sunset or whiz across the sky at supersonic speeds. Alternatively the male hero is an entrepreneur or mad scientist who uses his ruthless [...]
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