Short Term 12 limns the connection between empathy and compassion.
Minimizing events does not remove them from consciousness.
Based on the article, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film The Bling Ring follows a handful of teenagers through Calabasas, CA as they break into a rob the homes of celebrities like Audrina Patridge, Paris Hilton, and Orlando Bloom. In truth, Coppola offers a tale of modern nihilism, wherein these new age Robin Hoods are […]
Politics: The game, the rouse, the celebrity.
Like Timothy Dalton’s final Bond film, License to Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s final turn as Bond in Die Another Day, offers a departure from the familiar. Introduced with a shimmer of gray at his temples, this Bond is a bit more seasoned than he was in the previous three films. This is both honest to Brosnan’s age, but […]
If there were a marriage of Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is not Enough would be the progeny produced. While there are action scenes aplenty, they are buffered with the slow building of character and a Bond who seems to feel genuine concern for Electra (Sophie Marceau), the young oil heiress that he is asked […]
This is the End would be more appropriately titled, This is the Movie My Friends and I Would Make if We had a Lot of Money. This is not to say that This is the End is a bad movie. It’s funny. It has its moments of sentiment, and the cast is redoubtable – or, as much […]
If nothing else, the Bond franchise teaches us that consistency is overrated, but perhaps this is the best way to keep drawing an audience. Looking through the previous 17 films, it’s difficult to find two in a row that contain a similar tone or style. This, in part, could be blamed on the frequent change in directors, […]
A number of films that deal with isolation also deal with the fear of containment. Castaway pits Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) on an island. Pi is trapped on a boat with a hungry tiger. In Buried, Ryan Gosling must ward off claustrophobia and – inexplicably – fire in a coffin. Frozen relegates our skiers to their chairlift, […]
Money for Nothing is the latest documentary to cast a stone on the many culprits in bringing about the Great Recession. While it does a decent job of breaking down the convoluted calculus of the United States economy into rote concepts (printing lots of dollars decreases the value of the dollar and lowers interest rates, which in […]