A joint review of John Rabe (2009, Florian Gallenberger), City of Life and Death (2009, Chuan Lu) and Flowers of War (2011, Zhang Yimou) I have long had a particular and I hope, not morbid, interest…
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Veteran journalist Sebastian Junger and videographer Tim Hetherington spent an embedded year with an American combat unit posted to a remote hilltop—eventually named “Restrepo” for its fallen medic—in the Korangal…
NOTE: I didn’t see it on the “big screen” (but in HD on my new “JimboTron”), nor in 3-D. And I waited until I could get in from Netflix and made…
A dual review of Crash (2004) and Gran Torino (2009) With the meltdown of the American economy since 2008, the further withering of employment in the almost vestigial manufacturing sector immigrants, documented or…
There are a lot of reasons that my personal taste in motion pictures rebels at the latest piece of jejune flatulence by Quentin Tarantino, Inglourous Basterds. Tarantino, a director who is…
2010 is here. Happy New Year; the end of the world is nigh (again). But I have to warn you: According to the Mayan calendar (you mean your dentist didn’t…
Actuarially, Ted was on the young side, only seventy-seven when he died. But considering his brothers’ fates . . . . Given the eulogies and encomiums related to forty-seven years…
Every so often, like phoning up and old friend, I have to put this movie in the DVD player (I wore out the VHS version). Like David Lean’s Summertime (Archives, No. 29.…
a review of Revolutionary Road and the Cinema of Suburbia Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy…
There is a joke I heard many years ago. I’m not sure I remember it exactly, but it goes like this: Back in the days of marauding hordes a village…