Howard Zinn: You Can'T Be Neutral On A Moving Train Plain Jane Documentary Won'T Rewrite History I enjoy left-wing documentaries as much as the next lefty, but I'm still not convinced radical historian Howard Zinn is the ideal subject [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Sep 23, 2004 Read More Howard Zinn demonstrates the power of positive grinning
Riding Giants Extreme Surfing Documentary Rides The Crest Skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta staged a street-level assault on the documentary industry in 2001 when he unleashed Dogtown and Z-Boys, an unforgettable, eye-opening [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 16, 2004 Read More
Silver City Sayles' Latest Walks The Line Between Political Commentary And Pointed Comedy “Washington”--meaning, the general political power structure in America--has long accused “Hollywood”--meaning, the entertainment industry as a whole--of being a nest of potty-mouthed, sex-crazed, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 16, 2004 Read More “Strateegery!”
She Hate Me She Hate Me, Spike Lee's latest foray into the depths of black male angst, is likely to be remembered as the most abhorrent [...] Ari Aster \ Sep 09, 2004 Read More
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Milla Is Game For Another Go-Around, But This Horror/Action Hybrid Just Fires Blanks The first Resident Evil film was based on a popular video game of the same name. The video game featured assorted characters running [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 09, 2004 Read More “Girls
Vanity Fair Pomp And Circumstance Drives Brit-Lit Romance I must confess that I'm not the most avid fan of Brit-lit romance. I really couldn't give a toss if poor Ms. So-and-so [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 02, 2004 Read More Reese just can’t bear to watch.
Hero High-Flying Martial Arts Fantasy Out-Crouches The Tiger It took Quentin Tarantino poking his finger into Harvey Weinstein's overfed ribs several times and offering to “present” the film for Miramax to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 26, 2004 Read More A scene from Bob Fosse’s Samurai Jazz.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi Unpredictable Hack-And-Slash Is Bloody Entertaining Asian action purists who've absorbed a majority of actor Shintarô Katsu's 26 legendary Zatôichi films (a role he played from 1962 to 1989) [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 19, 2004 Read More
Garden State Intimate Writing/Directing Debut Is Is Not Your Garden Variety Comedy But what I really want to do is direct: It's been a lament uttered by overly ambitious actors since the dawn of the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 19, 2004 Read More “Remember in high school when we used to hang out with chicks
Lost Boys Of Sudan Two Teens Are Coming To America In Culture Shock Doc Lost Boys of Sudan is something of a novelty. It represents the first occasion, perhaps in months, on which a self-proclaimed “documentary” has [...] Ari Aster \ Aug 12, 2004 Read More Welcome to America
