It’s the political background that takes precedence in The Adjustment Bureau to such an extent that it may provide the key to the film’s rather temporal cosmology. For a story…
This is bound to be little more than a rehashing of the earlier post on Dumb and Dumber, that other Farrelly brothers film that preceded Stuck On You and…
On a narrative level, there’s little to say about the Coen brothers’ new version of True Grit that couldn’t be said about the first film. Plenty have talked about the…
Pirate Radio (dir. Richard Curtis, 2009) – As movies go, bad. But, it’s another example of the mythologizing of the 60s, as seen in other rock ‘n roll period films…
Epistemologically and affectively positioned with the diegetic FBI, the viewer of The Informant! only very slowly realizes the truckload of baggage that is behind Mark Whitacre’s squealing. Steven Soderbergh made…
(Forgive the unfortunate photo-formatting.) While taking a “break” the other day from the sorts of films that surround this entry, I thrust myself into the catharsis that is The Bourne…
