A boy, his dog, and Burton at his best.
Hitchcock is tongue-in-cheek, sentimental, revealing, and, overall, a production – which seems to be the way that Hitchcock himself would have wanted it, if the film is to be believed. Admittedly, here lies the rub. Is it accurate that the master of suspense routinely spoke with such a mesmerizing and dreary cadence, extended both his lips and […]
Denzel Washington’s strong performance of an alcoholic gives weight to a film bogged down by its familiarity.
The Invisible War goes beyond simply looking at the atrocities and repercussions of rape in the military. This is discussed thoroughly, making the movie both infuriatingly difficult to watch and extremely important, but the onus of the film is on the hypocrisies employed in the United States military. Beginning with a 1950’s television commercial encouraging enlistment, lauding […]
Spike Lee’s focus, appropriately, is on the process and the passion, not the tabloid conjecture and presumed wackiness.