Van Sant milks history for understated biopic
Director Gus Van Sant has taken a break from his often inaccessible forays into (almost) experimental film to make Milk, a very typical Hollywood biopic about Harvey Milk, the nation’s first openly gay man to win major elected office and then assassinated shortly thereafter. I don’t use ‘typical’ pejoratively, rather as an observation of how [...]
Seven Pounds and 118 minutes of incoherence
Scene: Ben Thomas (played with unending weepiness by Will Smith), despondent, in close-up makes a 911 call to report his own impending suicide.
Cut to: Ben swimming in the blue Pacific. His voiceover, in pressing sadness, informs us, “In seven days God created the world. And in seven seconds I shattered mine.” Yet I recall God [...]
Review: Eastwood’s Growling Gran Torino
The last few years have brought Clint Eastwood a great deal of critical success as a director. He’s recently had a four film streak beginning with Mystic River in 2003 that have brought three Best Picture Oscar nods, including a winner in Million Dollar Baby, and renewed praise for the aging movie star. This year [...]
The vast disparity
This isn’t news to anyone who has paid attention to the destruction of the American middle class and economy. The vast disparity between ordinary wage earners and the CEOs and money men have destroyed American business.
It has led to wholesale “outsourcing” to satisfy Wall Street “expectations” while putting whole swaths of American workers into [...]
The wisdom of the boards: dating
Responding to The Demise of Dating (Good topic. Terrible oped piece.)
The problem with this system is that it really doesn’t work at all for introverted people who genuinely prefer hanging out one-on-one than in large groups. If you can’t ask a girl on a date without confusing her, and if you don’t especially care for [...]
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As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
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