Thursday
Aug222013
The Hunger Games: Roast Wild Boar Recipe
Maybe I’m out of touch. But I cannot garner much enthusiasm for a film that celebrates – while pretending not to – children killing children.
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Apr182013
Trance: An English Breakfast
You won’t sleepwalk through this slick and sexy thriller. But you may get dizzy from the unexpected plot twists and character reversals, not to mention a disquieting glimpse into an amoral world.
Thursday
Feb212013
Les Miserables: French Pot au Feu
This film has the lyrical beauty of an opera, but with a cleaner, more compelling narrative and characters of unusual complexity. And not a strutting baritone or corseted prima donna in sight!
Thursday
Feb212013
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Cajun Crawfish and Shrimp Etouffe
I was not overly impressed with this Oscar nominee for Best Pictre and Best Actress. The celebration of dysfunction, poverty, violence and drunkenness is bad enough. But the cult of cloying critics who eat it all up in the spirit of “anthropological voyeurism” is too much.
Wednesday
Jan302013
V for Vendetta: British Fried Bread and Egg
We’ve all seen them. Those ragged bumper stickers whose ideas are as worn and outdated as the car’s paint job. Guess what! These guys have put together a movie, and its plot is as convoluted and clichéd as the slogans on their rusty vans.
