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It is a cliche for hack writers and barstool philosophers to contemplate what Martians would think of the Earth if they were to land here tomorrow. What would they think of the way that we treat the forests and the animals? What would they think of the way that we
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Four years after the largely disappointing “Miracle at St. Anna,” director Spike Lee has returned with a film resembling many of his past classics. “Red Hook Summer” embodies Lee’s legendary ability to make a small film seem larger than life. A plunge into the rough and tumble Brooklyn neighborhood of
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Many of us are envious of the French habit of taking five week long vacations. Fortunately, Guillaume Canet’s “Little White Lies,” will not only make you grateful of your two-week express holiday, it will give you a new appreciation the American glut of Chevy Chase inspired vacation-themed movies. It’s no
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A fast-food restaurant, with greasy grills and artery-clogging fare, seems an unlikely setting for a thriller. But for “Compliance,” the newest film from Magnolia Pictures, fast-food is of little concern. Screenings of “Compliance” have driven audience members from theaters in droves. At the San Francisco screening alone, several viewers left the
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If there’s been an overriding theme in the films released this summer (and these past few years), it’s been the economy. Scenes regarding the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor, the vast waves of unemployment and the ineptitude of the government have infiltrated even the most seemingly shallow
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A gift from the French government in 1886, the Statue of Liberty and her promise to welcome “The wretched refuse of your teeming shore” was the first recognisable sign of the America that new immigrants saw when arriving in New York. Arriving with 30 kinds of sausage and cheese at
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If a man fights off a hungry wolf with his bare hands in a movie, is there any possible way that movie could be boring? Before this, I would have voiced a strong “Hell no!,” but today I am a changed person. I have seen “The Bourne Legacy” and have
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“I like to call it a comedy about a broken heart,” said Will McCormack of the new comedy “Celeste and Jesse Forever” — summer’s freshest independent film on what it’s like to be in love and the manifestations after it’s all over. It questions what it’s like to have your
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You can always tell when it’s August. School backpacks are rushed to the front of the shelves, the weather is caught in a monotonous standstill between the heat of summer and the cool of fall and an entire slew of mediocre movies are thrust upon an audience, fatigued from the
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Regular readers of this column may be surprised at how often my bed features as a location of movie viewing. Whether it’s in Hollywood, New York or Berkeley, I have an irresistible attraction to the hollow pallor of the computer screen as I skirt the embrace of Morpheus. If it
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