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Welcome to the Jungle
Tapping into a vein of horror movies with American travelers as preyed, Turistas is the first U.S. film shot entirely in Brazil.
Tags: John Stockwell, Turistas
On Arbus
Director Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus is an anti-biopic that dares to read between the lines of its subject's life.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
'The Fountain' Is Just a Dying Tree
Metaphysical space age imaginings counter the death of a loved one in writer/director Darren Aronofsky's visually stunning yet superficial fantasy.
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
The Best Superspy Yet
Daniel Craig more than capably fills 007's shoes in a Bond film that shatters formula constraints and delivers nail-biting action in a considerably darker mode.
Tags: Casino Royale, Martin Campbell
Richard Linklater Cuts Up the Fast Food Industrial Complex
Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren produced this film version of Eric Schlosser’s best-selling 2001 nonfiction expose “Fast Food Nation,” about the disgusting, illegal, and dangerous aspects of America’s fast food industrial complex.
Menace To Society
Harsh Time is a modern and raw reflection of the disastrous effects of war on the soldiers that survive them and the potential danger they pose.
Tags: David Ayer, Harsh Times
Almodovar's Latest Muse
Penelope Cruz talks about Volver.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
11-02-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
A Pinnacle of Comedy
Bawdy, quick-witted, and unrelentingly hilarious, Borat is possibly the funniest movie ever made.
Connecting Apartheid to Today
Noyce applies his authentic sense of cinematic storytelling to the real-life story of Patrick Chamusso, an apolitical South African oil refinery engineer who joins a revolution against the violent apartheid regime.
Tags: Catch a Fire, Philip Noyce
Can Amy Berg Deliver Us From Evil?
Berg's riveting, persuasive, and brave documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady is more frightening than any horror movie you have ever seen.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
10-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil
Deconstructing Heroism
Clint Eastwood distills a wartime story of epic proportions and personal truths from Iwo Jima, the worst single engagement of WWII.
Barry Levinson Throws a Cinematic Softball at Voter Fraud
Writer/director Barry Levinson (“Rain Man”) squanders an attempt to stir debate over republican voter fraud that marred the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, and that threatens to cloud the upcoming 2008 balloting, with an imploding satire about a television comedian who runs for President of the United States.
Tags: Barry Levinson, Man of the Year
Whitaker Makes the Ground Shake
The buzz is strong for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Forest Whitaker for his profoundly nuanced and fearless performance in Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's historical novel The Last King of Scotland.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
09-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scorsese's Lion Roars
With The Departed, Leonardo DiCaprio completes a trilogy of films under the direction of America's preeminent master filmmaker.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
09-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Underground Boston Undercover
Scorsese scores a stunner with The Departed.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
