Film Reviews
Savage Grace: Yet another American tragedy
By David Walsh, July 16, 2008
Directed by Tom Kalin, screenplay by Howard Rodman, based on the book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson
War Inc.: Strengths and weaknesses of the Hollywood left
By Joanne Laurier, July 12, 2008
Directed by Joshua Seftel, screenplay by Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser and John Cusack
Film noir and postwar America
By Charles Bogle, July 1, 2008
Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4 (Act of Violence/Mystery Street/Crime Wave/Decoy/Illegal/The Big Steal/They Live by Night/Side Street/Where Danger Lives/Tension). List price, $59.98, recently pri...
You can’t go home again: George Romero’s Diary of the Dead
By Hiram Lee, June 28, 2008
With Diary of the Dead, director George Romero has returned to the start of the zombie plague which first took shape in his Night of the Living Dead (1968) and grew in intensity through Dawn of the De...
Trumbo and the Hollywood blacklist
By David Walsh, June 26, 2008
Directed by Peter Askin, screenplay by Christopher Trumbo
Young@Heart: Not going gentle ...
By Joanne Laurier, June 25, 2008
Directed by Stephen Walker
Standard Operating Procedure: Images from a neo-colonial war
By Joanne Laurier, June 17, 2008
Directed by Errol Morris, book by Morris and Philip Gourevitch
Indiana Jones and the search for entertainment
By Hiram Lee, June 13, 2008
Veteran director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have teamed up for yet another installment in their popular Indiana Jones franchise. In bringing their iconic adventurer back to the screen ...
Before the Rains: Hazarding the deeper waters of colonialism
By Joanne Laurier, June 6, 2008
Directed by Santosh Sivan, screenplay by Cathy Rabin, based on the film Red Roofs by Dan Verete
Sex and the City: A joyless affair for the most part
By David Walsh, June 5, 2008
Written and directed by Michael Patrick King
Iron Man: Just what sort of hero is this?
By Hiram Lee, May 26, 2008
Iron Man is the latest in a barrage of comic book superhero films to come to the big screen in recent years. Like a number of the others, it is done very well for itself at the box office and with mai...
The Visitor: “Human” or “political”?
By David Walsh, May 22, 2008
Written and directed by Tom McCarthy
