Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) movie review: Joss Whedon entry works well enough as a ‘stand alone’ title, but the MCU is starting to feel stale.
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European Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa legacy range from apartheid films to Neill Blomkamp’s sleeper hit District 9 + Something of Value.
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Iron Man 3 (2013) movie review: Shane Black and Robert Downey Jr. collaboration marred by its pandering to the overseers of the Chinese market.
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Leos Carax madness + John Hawkes’ Virgin In but DiCaprio + Spielberg Out: Film Critics and Academy members scrambling to watch potential award contenders.
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Edward Norton Hulk drama: Better days, with Norton as Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk. July 12 update: First Marvel’s Kevin Feige lambasted Edward Norton, who played Bruce Banner in…
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Best Actor Academy Award nominees Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Best Actress Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love), director/executive producer Jon Favreau, Academy Award…
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Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2. Reviews for the blockbuster-to-be Iron Man 2 have mostly ranged from lukewarm to downright negative. The original Iron Man has become the Tin…
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Crash movie (2005): Mostly well cast, Paul Haggis’ ethnically obsessed drama teaches audiences that There’s Good and Bad in Everyone.
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Hotel Rwanda Movie: Facts or fiction in Rwandan genocide drama featuring Oskar-Schindler-like hero - Paul Rusebagina now himself a controversial figure.
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A superb Don Cheadle stars as Kigali hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in Terry George’s absurdly ‘uplifting’ genocide drama Hotel Rwanda.
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Gay Republicans and their mind-boggling support for the party that despises them + the horrors of the Rwanda genocide are this year’s disturbing AFI FEST winners.
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Toronto Film Festival winners: This year’s People’s Choice Award went to Terry George’s drama Hotel Rwanda. U.S. actor Don Cheadle and British actress Sophie Okonedo star.
Sex-Starved housewives and Gay Iranian refugees + veteran New Wave actress Marina Vlady: Sundance Film Festival highly eclectic film line-up.
Dysfunctional families: Little Miss Sunshine. With five nods each, the crowd-pleasing dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine (US$59 million at the U.S. and Canada box office) and the socio-psychological drama…
Sean Penn embodies the antithesis of the ‘American Dream’ in Niels Mueller’s nightmarish social critique The Assassination of Richard Nixon.