Milk’s double win at the Oscars Sunday night spawned a nation-wide discussion about the high incidence of winning an award for “playing gay”. But even before Tom Hanks took home a little gold man in 1994 for his portrayal of the ailing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, Oscar has been handing out golden statues to [...]
Here is a film that could easily have been a grotesque caricature study that bashes the shit out of the Bush administration, but it is actually an illuminating biopic that seeks to understand one of our nation’s greatest failures. Staunch liberal Oliver Stone refuses to take the Michael Moore route and, instead, employs the [...]
Carlos Reygadas’s intractable, luminous film deals in punishing obscurity, uncommonly beautiful images and a kind of tight-lipped mysticism that jibes with the story’s German-speaking Mennonites who have cloistered themselves in Chihuahua, Mexico. The old folks bucked and snorted at the deliberate, lingering pace and the easily pretentious conversations referring to God and “the enemy” (the [...]
Why stop at 10 when there are so many excellent movies out there and the internet has infinite space? To settle any arguments that may spring up, some of these movies were released as early as 2007 and exhibited in theaters as late as 2009, but they are all uniquely connected with 2008 either [...]
You shouldn’t punch your mom in the face, we can all agree, but I would argue that the recent, web-omnipresent recording of Christian Bale’s on-set tirade is no rock solid proof that the phenomenal child actor (recall: Empire of the Sun v. A.I. and be honest with yourself about which teenager really holds [...]
BananaWho has seen the future, friends, and it is in 3D. The aptly named U2 3D is the first ever live-action movie shot in digital 3D imaging—that means that if you haven’t seen it, you likely have never seen this technology before. Listen closely—digital 3D imaging is the future of the entertainment industry. [...]
It’s hard to shock a modern-day audience, but Teeth had packed houses at Sundance eliciting full-throttle screams in unison. It is one of the few non-pornographic movies that examines the power of the vagina, and dares to pose the question, “What if the vagina was no longer the most vulnerable part of [...]
Isn’t it nice to see a major studio comedy that is conventional, but actually good? Penned by a man who had an itch to show his crotch a bunch on screen (I suppose there is a lot to be proud of) Forgetting Sarah Marshall surprised all of us by being funny because [...]
You saw this movie already, didn’t you? And you were high when you saw it, weren’t you? So you know it’s good. I don’t have to explain how awesome it is, or how amazing James Franco’s performance was, or that you’re glad someone finally made a pot-humor thriller. The [...]
This documentary details the life of little-known musician Arthur Russell, who never achieved widespread notoriety during his life, but who is arguably one of the most prolific musicians of our time. A cellist and song-writer, Russell set out to infiltrate all genres of music, from mainstream pop to esoteric man-and-cello ballads. [...]