Mel Gibson Crosses the Line in 'Edge of Darkness'
Shepherd Express |
January 29, 2010
Tags: Edge of Darkness, Martin Campbell
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'How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamites,' Reviewednew
When the financial tailspin of 2008 forced Alan Greenspan to confess that he was mistaken about the unshakable rationality and self-correcting nature of the economy, it was as if a Roman Catholic cardinal publicly doubted the divinity of Christ.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-26-2010 |
Nonfiction
Eric Blowtorch: The Jamaican Connectionnew
A prolific recording artist always willing to share the microphone with guest stars, Eric Blowtorch’s musical endeavors have been more a vocation in the traditional sense than a career. He has reached a new height on his latest album with his band the Welders, The Alphabet.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-11-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Milwaukee Marched for Justicenew
Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware will recall a time of sharp tension. This story is recounted with lucid scholarship in The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-15-2009 |
Nonfiction
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Spike Lee Remembers Balck Braverynew
Lee has been fighting World War II long before the release of his latest film, Miracle at St. Anna. His campaign began with a salvo at Clint Eastwood for excluding black faces from Flags of Our Fathers and perpetuating the assumption that blacks contributed little to the U.S. victory.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
10-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna
'Outsourced': A Comedy of Job Lossnew
Outsourced is a bright comedy about greedy American corporations, low-wage Indian workers, cultural incomprehension and the bonds that can form across all barriers by people of good will-especially, but not only, if they fall in love.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-05-2008 |
Reviews
Son of Hamlet?new
Hamlet 2 is not among the funniest of satires, though it does have its amusing moments.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
08-29-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Cattaneo, Hamlet 2
Vicky and Cristina Abroadnew
For the fourth in a series of films made outside of his beloved New York, Woody Allen moves from Great Britain to sunnier climes. Set in Spain, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is an ocean away from his mature Manhattan comedies geographically, but emotionally it might as well be just across the Hudson.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
08-22-2008 |
Reviews
Spike Lee versus Clint Eastwoodnew
Lee was off base in giving the impression that Eastwood's body of work is racist. That is simply not the case. Lee was correct, however, in pointing out that Eastwood's omission in Flags of Our Fathers only reinforces the idea that black contributions to America's struggle in World War II were minimal.
Shepherd Express |
Richard G. Carter |
06-27-2008 |
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