Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron works well as a ‘stand alone’ movie, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe is starting to feel stale.
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Colonialism in Africa and its lasting legacy: The Wilby Conspiracy with Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, and Rutger Hauer. Shot in Kenya with an international cast, Ralph Nelson’s South…
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Marvel’s otherwise solid superhero movie sequel Iron Man 3 is marred by its pandering to the overseers of the Chinese market. Robert Downey Jr. stars.
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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 vs. fiction. Like Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Best Picture Academy Award winner and international box office hit Schindler’s List – about German businessman Oskar Schindler, who is…
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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.
Sex-starved housewives everywhere are represented by Agnes Kittelsen, who also happens to be the “perfect” housewife, in Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy / Sykt Lykkelig – one of the 2011 Sundance…
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.