In an earlier post, I tackled the connection between Steve Rogers’ transformation into Captain America as a government sponsored PED initiative, and while I still stand by that assertion – and the way in which America’s sponsorship of PED use to “escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell theoretically absolves them of blame because it’s for “the […]
Should a 2011 prequel that resembles its 1968 sequel be hailed for paying homage to its predecessor, most notably with a cultishly referential line like “Take your hands off me, you damned dirty ape!” or its melodramatic construction of the head of the ultimately demonized Gensys Corporation, Jacobs (David Oyelowo), who asserts that Will Rodman “only has […]
Imagine that somewhere in the world of Celebrity, there is no natural selection. Celebrities – the inhabitants of Celebrity – don’t perish, but when they slip from the hierarchical apex of “able to carry a movie on one’s own” to “able to do a solid job in a supporting role” they are kept – on the instructions […]
Take a couple that has been married for twenty five years. Add a dash of midlife crisis until it yields infidelity and divorce. Slather the wife with remorse for the disintegration of the marriage and her choice to sleep with David Lindhagen. Provide a young, philandering mentor to the aging, seemingly asexual protégé ex-husband. At first glance, […]
With the rash of alien-invasion films over the past few years, it’s not surprising that two such films battled it out for the top spot at the box office during the last week of July. What is rather surprising is that those two films were John Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens – a film that marries anachronism to future fears […]
There’s plenty to be said for Gasland, the Oscar-nominated, 2010 documentary from Josh Fox, who grew up and currently lives on the Marcellus Shale, “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” in Pennsylvania. In fact, his land is so valuable that he was offered 100,000 an acre by a handful of companies seeking the “ocean of natural gas” […]
Thanks to True Hollywood Story and Behind the Music, watching music-centered biopics and documentaries is often akin to watching Titanic in that you are relegated to waiting for the boat to crash into an iceberg of ego and slowly sink as the mates argue over which dinghy to take. The formula for these shows is simple: take two people who meet in […]
There is something compelling about Man on Wire, the 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, that would have not been as such had it been released closer to the time of Philipe Petit’s daring walk between the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Certainly, his astounding athleticism would stand out, as would […]
It feels a bit ironic to say that Larry Clark, the director of Kids, Wassup Rockers, and Ken Park, failed to push Bully as far as it could go. It feels doubly so because, at times, Bully feels like a venture into pornography and sadomasochism. At the same time, these elements seem more like redundant exposition to […]
The wash of posters in subways, on busses and taxis that declare “It all ends” on July 15thmight portend an earlier than anticipated end of the world prophecy; however, for now, the declaration is geared toward the millions of Harry Potter fans who are lining up to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, the finale […]