Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“I realized I had had my fill of the series right around the time Jason Statham was forced to perform a striptease in order to get the keys to his car.
Drama Rated R
What if Gus Van Sant had made Milk as if he were actually Gus Van Sant? That’s all I could think while watching this stately, well-mannered movie biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold a major political office when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
Drama Rated PG-13
I’ve Loved You So Long takes someone guilty of an inhuman act and gets us to recognize their universal humanity. Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) has recently been released from prison after 15 years (I’ll let the movie reveal her crime in its own, judicious time). Though they haven’t communicated in most of that time, she
Frost/Nixon dramatizes the behind-the-scenes jockeying that took place during the landmark 1977 television interview between British TV personality David Frost and Nixon. Three years after leaving office, these sessions were the only time Nixon came close to offering the American public anything akin to an apology. Adapted by screenwriter Peter Morgan from his own play
Family Rated NR
“The original Scared Straight!
“When I say Charlie Kaufman should be put on suicide watch, I’m not being facetious.
“…wants to sweep previous sweeping historical romances off their feet.
Comedy Rated R
"The sudden sweetness Kevin Smith tries to force into the film feels especially false considering the nastiness that otherwise defines the movie."
Paradise Now follows the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian suicide bombers. It’s a testament to the film’s emphasis on humanity over politics that you simply come to see it as the story of two disillusioned, conflicted and confused men – desperate, angry youth who could be from any oppressed region of
“We’re in a new era of action angst.
