Category: Film
Nancy Meyers Continues Her Winning Streak With The Intern
Nancy Meyers’ consistent ability to write and direct a film that appeals to the “older” demographic, yet somehow transcends well beyond that to people of [Read More…]
Driving Down the Boulevard With Robin Williams
As Robin Williams’ final movie, Boulevard is a difficult film to judge. Directed by Dito Montiel, best known for writing the memoir A Guide to [Read More…]
She’s Funny That Way: Proof That No One Knows More About Film Than Peter Bogdanovich
Being an obsessive filmgoer is something no one else can understand unless they, too, have the disease. To be a movie junkie is to comprehend [Read More…]
Serpico and the Irony of Morality in A Position of Power
When Serpico came out in 1973, the concept of police corruption was still, well, not necessarily new, but extremely accepted and embraced. Frank Serpico (played [Read More…]
Audiences Were Too Quick to Say Goodbye to Aloha
Cameron Crowe has gotten a bad review for essentially every movie he’s done since Elizabethtown (or, depending who you ask, Vanilla Sky). In his twenties, [Read More…]
The Mend: An Exploration of Heartbreak
More complex even than the sister-sister relationship is the brother-brother one. At least, that’s how it comes across in John Magary’s The Mend. Bordering more [Read More…]
The Warriors: Greek in Basis, New York in Significance
The 1979 classic The Warriors isn’t remarkable just for how telling it was of New York City existence for a unique moment in time (anarchy, [Read More…]
Showgirls: Revisiting An Unwitting Masterpiece 20 Years Later
It’s almost but once a decade that a movie like Showgirls comes along (in the early 00s, both Crossroads and Glitter proved a rare double [Read More…]
Sean Penn: Wife Beater or Misunderstood “Bad Boy”?
Sean Penn has long since shirked his 80s-held reputation for being a choleric and abusive proponent of violence, liable to snap with one mere glance from [Read More…]
The Hunt Takes You on a Dark Journey Through the Forest of Lynch Mob Mentality
In an age when a grown man even coming near children alone is somehow considered pedophilic, it’s amazing that one would be allowed to teach [Read More…]
