Film
Whiplash and Birdman — two of the best films released this year.
Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.
Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.
Is he a murderer? Is she? Who was the victim? His wife? The mistress? The Blue Room is Gone Girl French style, which means more sex, more art, and more enigma.
Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.
The good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.
Director David Fincher does a good job at making our skin crawl while we chuckle at the audacity of the goings-ons in Gone Girl.
The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
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