In the Realm of Natural Transcendence: Emir Kusturica’s Life Is a Miracle
Out of the pastoral
Category: Reviews
Sideways: Sideways to Hell, Maybe!
Alexander Payne’s new indie is headed in the wrong direction
Mike Leigh’s 20th Century Snaps: Vera Drake and Naked
Two sides of the same desperate coin
Unhappy Together: Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046
“Why can’t it be like before?”
Body and Soul: Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Lancelot of the Lake on DVD
Death, destruction, and … hope
Baby, Take a Bow: That’s Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and thrill
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean to The Witch Who Came from the Sea
“God made us all perfect, truly he did!”
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD
Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
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