Criterion Critique: The Confession
Of no credit to Gavras and his team beyond simply choosing to make a film about London, his story is inherently interesting; London was an actor—in some capacity—in the Spanish civil war; a Jew and a communist, he had spent time in occupied France which lead to his internment in a concentration camp (where, according to the film, one of his children was born); and he endured an undeserving fate as a political pawn of the Soviet Union to indict the West.
March Radness: Best in Basketball Films
America’s Finest City has a spotty record when it comes to basketball. San Diego State was robbed of a birth at the NCAA Tournament and ended up looking dominant in the NIT. Does college basketball really need two tournaments?
Politics, Dammit
In what will come as a surprise to nobody, we have an election coming up in November. My job as a sarcastic, trivia-obsessed, film critic does not put me in a position to tell anyone who to vote for.
Band of Horses Turns Ten
I wasn’t paying close enough attention at the time to the formation changes the band was going through. I was too fascinated by the record as a whole, with singles like “The Great Salt Lake” and “I Go To The Barn Because I Like The” becoming mainstays on pretty much every CD compilation I made in the summer of 2006
California Schemin’
This movie is California as distilled through a cologne commercial. As wrung out over an H&M advertisement. As basted in poolside chlorine. Oliver Stone’s Savages is hypnotized by its own vacuity.
Revolving Cinema
Remakes, the New Hollywood Genre For those of you who follow Hollywood affairs, you know that there is little-to-no originality left in the film industry. For those of you who don’t, let me break it down for you. America has been producing films as a commercial endeavor since the 1920’s. It’s no surprise that after all this time, someone in some plush Hollywood business suite is panicking. They’re panicking because most every...
