Film Review: The Informant! True-Life Character Study Finds Humor In Corporate Price-Fixing Of Amino Acids Mark Whitacre is no moron. By all accounts, he’s an educated guy. He was president of Archer Daniels Midland’s BioProducts division—the youngest in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More “Would I lie to you?”
Film Review: 9 By-The-Numbers Sci-Fi Tale At Least Looks Fantastic Like the recent low-budget sci-fi hit District 9 (with which it shares a numerical kinship), director Shane Acker’s 9 also started out as [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 10, 2009 Read More “Say hello to my little friend.”
Film Review: It Might Get Loud Musical Doc Rocks Your Socks Off Note: This film’s opening date has been moved by the distributor. It is now scheduled to hit Albuquerque on Friday 9/18. Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 10, 2009 Read More “So ... where are the groupies?”
Film Review: The Garden Documentary Traces Dramatic Grassroots Fight To Go Green Simple in both construction and style, The Garden is the sort of no-frills, shot-on-video documentary that lets its subject speak for itself. Wise [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 03, 2009 Read More “We’re eating popcorn tonight!”
Film Review: Handmade Nation She’s Crafty: Diy Documentary Chronicles Indie Crafts Movement Several years ago, Faythe Levine—photographer, businesswoman and prominent figure in the growing indie craft movement—set out to document the world of DIY art, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 27, 2009 Read More A stitch in time saves nine. (Whatever that means.)
Film Review: Taking Woodstock Ang Lee Gets Groovy In An Evocative, Occasionally Scattershot Biopic Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee may be the most successful, least categorizable filmmaker working today. His résumé includes an indie dramedy ( Eat [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 27, 2009 Read More Soon
Film Review: Lemon Tree Simple Drama About Feuding Neighbors Makes For Powerful Middle East Parable I’m no expert or anything, but I’m pretty sure it says somewhere in the Bible something about treating others as you would like [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 20, 2009 Read More “Dad couldn’t have planted an orange tree or two?”
Film Review: Shorts Robert Rodriguez Loads His Shotgun Full Of Slapstick And Cgi And Starts Firing I don’t get Robert Rodriguez much these days. He’s directed some undeniably kick-ass pieces of cinema ( El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 20, 2009 Read More “Whoa! Cool! It’s like a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy!”
Film Review: District 9 Effects-Driven Action Film Documents Alien Apartheid [photo]For the last year or two, famed New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson ( The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and unknown South African [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 13, 2009 Read More If you lived here
Film Review: Sleep Dealer We’re Exporting Our Jobs, Why Not Our Sci-Fi Films? [photo]Thanks to the ever-increasing worldwide domination of the Hollywood product, we don’t see a lot of films coming out of Mexico these days. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 13, 2009 Read More “Hail COBRA!”
