Film & TV
Retake the Remake
A few months ago I took on the (ultimately unfortunate) assignment of reviewing Michael Haneke's own remake of his brilliant 1997 commentary, Funny Games.
Summer Movies
As usual, the summer is dumping ground for prick (Iron Man) and chick (Sex and the City) flicks alike.
Mister Lonely
5 Stars What if Abraham Lincoln, the Three Stooges, Michael Jackson and Sammy Davis Jr. lived together in a Scottish castle?
A Film to Visit
Were Stanley Kramer alive today, he would have loved Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. Indeed, it resembles many of the Big Issue films of the mid-twentieth century.
Editor's Picks
New Releases: Young @ Heart: Centegenarians croon without (apparent) fear of keeling over. John McCain, take note.
Movie Magic
Captain Disillusion stares at the camera and utters, "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else." This post-enlightenment superhero, whose face is partially coated in metallic silver paint, is at once seriously goofy and playfully skeptical.
Shake Up in the Holy Land
Unsettled, a documentary by Adam Hootnick, tells the story of six young adults living in Israel during the summer of 2005, when the Jewish state made the controversial decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip.
Internet Video of the Week: History Boys
History majors, bottoms up! If you know anything relevant about Ben Franklin, you've been going to too many classes.
This Movie Is Inebri-RATED
You've probably experienced that Friday night when you've got your party shoes on, but no party to attend.
Carmen Sandiego's Protege
The 2004 smash-hit documentary Super Size Me introduced the world to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock's latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, targets a far bigger foe than obesity.
A Phoenix Like Fawkes
Phoenixology - the graceful art of death and rebirth - lies at the center of French director Jean Cocteau's final film, Le Testament d'Orph
The Real News Reel
Based on the comic adventures of a young journalist, two big-screen adaptations of Tintin will be arriving in theaters in 2009.
Paranoid Perk
Paranoid Park is Gus Van Sant's latest foray into the psyche of discarded American youths. It is a contemporary Crime and Punishment, which recreates Dostoevsky's world of introspection, tension and guilt in Portland, Oregon's skate parks.
In Case You Missed It
I used to think only pretentious deviants with spectacles lowered halfway down their noses liked foreign films.
Cinema Graphic Novels
5. From Hell (Adapted from From Hell by Alan Moore) A 2001 Jack the Ripper flick starring Johnny Depp, From Hell pretty much sandbagged in the box office.
Internet Video of the Week
The video entitled "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" catapulted its creator, crazed Britney fan Chris Crocker, out of the dark corners of Internet obscurity and into the spotlight.
Iraqi War Inspires Triteness, Cliches
Poignant, pertinent and made with noble intentions, Stop-Loss aims at greatness only to slide into mediocrity.
Because Steven Spielberg Is Getting Old
If the phrase "student film" makes you think of last night's exploits splashed across YouPorn.com, you haven't embraced the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF). A contest for Philadelphia-area university students, the festival gives awards in five different categories.
The Propaganda Trajectory
When one thinks of the word propaganda, the image of an American flag raised above soldiers dressed in camouflage comes to mind.
