Article Archive for February 2010
by Tessa Lynn
Directed by Martin Campbell, starring Mel Gibson
When the daughter of a Boston homicide detective is murdered, the police assume her father was the intended target. Her father goes on the trail of the …
When you see a movie that is rated PG do you know if it is safe for your 5-7 yo children to watch it? By safe, we mean just because there won’t be nudity or …
by Richard von Busack
LOWING foghorns and a ferryboat plowing through misty waters: we’re in Boston harbor in 1954, and then what materializes ahead is apparently Skull Island. Kong, however, is not at home; this Alcatraz …
by Richard von Busack
THEY WERE called the Pentagon Papers: a 7,000-page document compiled by the RAND Corporation. They were meant to provide a euphemism-free account of how America got entangled in Vietnam’s civil war. The …
by Richard von Busack
ONE NEEDED Werner Herzog for North Face; one got Philipp Stölzl, a former music-video director whose next effort is titled Goethe! (The exclamation point doesn’t bode well.) Stölzl has to subject this …
More a luminous artwork than a movie, Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum is a story about a cluster of people connected to the transportation industry. It’s a small world of the sidelined and the …
by Richard von Busack
IT’S NOT a perfect film, but The Wolfman is a loving remake, done by people who understood the romance, pathos and torment of Curt Siodmak’s original 1941 film. This new animal has …
44 Inch Chest
by Richard von Busack
Louis Mellis and David Scinto (of Sexy Beast) here have a dark-comic script is clearly about actors interacting with one another. The debuting director, Malcolm Venville, copes well with …
by Richard von Busack
ONE SEEKS the truth; one cherishes idealism. And yet truth and idealism make uncomfortable bedfellows. The problem of Leo Tolstoy’s end is scoped out in Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, based on …
By Richard von Busack
While Fish Tank is a film about the kind of people who name their dog after a brand of lager, there isn’t an ounce of patronization in it. Director Andrea Arnold’s film …
