Article Archive for May 2010
by Richard von Busack
How to sum up the appeal of the Kuchar Brothers’ cinema? In some 40 years of strictly underground filmmaking, these two New York expatriates explored cinema in both parallel and separate directions, …
by Richard von Busack
DIRECTOR Ken Loach has been nobly serving the cause of the proletariat with social-realist films for so long that he has earned the right to make a crowd pleaser. The genial Looking …
by Richard von Busack
WHAT BEGINS as a mess of good actors flailing for something to do devolves into a tangle of expatriate loungers keeping their secrets. The City of Your Final Destination concerns Omar (bland …
by Richard von Busack
HAVING LEFT the realm of common sense and cultural relevance years ago, the Sex and the City franchise staggers to its grave as a sequel of phenomenal gaucheness. Sex and the City …
by Richard von Busack
AS Sideshow Bob might have predicted: The chick flick’s bottomless chum bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave. Aspiring New Yorker writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is involved with a way-too-preoccupied NYC chef (Gael García …
by Richard von Busack
MY GRANDMOTHER had a unique expression for someone taking the out-of-the-way path: “You’re going by way of Robin Hood’s barn.” Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood—overlong, hideously expensive, graceless to the extreme—follows just that …
by Richard von Busack
OSS 117: Lost in Rio: Double-one-seven est de retour.
There are Bond geeks and then there are Bond geeks, but the makers of OSS 117: Lost in Rio (opening Friday) deserve an honorary …
With the upcoming opening of Jesse Eisenberg in the much anticipated film Holy Rollers (Reviews, Trailer) we have been getting quite a few questions about what life is like for a hasidic jew in NY.
With the upcoming opening of Jesse Eisenberg in the much anticipated film Holy Rollers (Reviews, Trailer) we have been getting quite a few questions about what life is like for a hasidic jew in NY.
by Richard von Busack
AUGEAN STABLES that it was, the Bush regime is going to require years of cleansing. An especially fragrant part of that era is the story of Jack Abramoff and the still-at-large Tom …
