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Showbiz Wrap
Written by Shawna Currie
Monday, 17 March 2008
The latest on what's happening in Hollywood.
Last Updated ( Monday, 17 March 2008 )
"Never Back Down" Movie Review
Written by Sean McBride
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Fighting is bad. And so is this movie.
“Never Back Down”
Summit Entertainment
Directed by Jeff Wadlow
Starring Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard and Djimon Hounsou
Rated PG-13
2 Stars
I’m not sure if MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts or Mixed-Message
Artifice, because the new movie “Never Back Down” seems to
hypocritically subscribe to both definitions. It’s a film that features
brutal, no-holds barred fighting that should easily work up the
audience’s blood lust, but it also has a wink-wink message that
fighting is wrong; a non-violence moral that seems completely
disingenuous given the film’s subject matter.
SXSW Review - "They Killed Sister Dorothy"
Written by Sean McBride
Sunday, 16 March 2008
“They Killed Sister Dorothy”
Directed by Daniel Junge
Narrated by Martin Sheen.
3 ½ Stars
AUSTIN/SXSW –
Having lived for a couple of years in South America among the
campesinos in Northern Argentina, I can understand the missionary zeal
that drove Sister Dorothy Stang, the elderly nun turned environmental
activist who so irritated Brazilian loggers and ranchers that she was
ultimately murdered. The police arrested the killer, but Sister
Dorothy’s brother and a Federal Prosecutor weren’t satisfied, and they
set out to prove that a conspiracy of powerful men ordered the nun’s
murder. This film is a remarkable look at the three-year’s of trial
(and tribulation) that follow.
Director Daniel Junge succeeds marvelously here, with total access to
all of the characters in what turns out to be a passionate courtroom
melodrama. There’s plenty of old footage of Sister Dorothy and her
crusade to save the Amazon from unscrupulous clear-cutting ranchers, so
we get a nice sense of her mission before the films segways into the
machinations of Brazil’s legal system.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 April 2008 )
New movies for the March 14 Weekend
Written by Sean McBride
Friday, 14 March 2008
This week's crop of new releases is led by Jim Carrey and Steve Carrell in "Horton Hears a Who."
Showbiz Wrap
Written by Shawna Currie
Thursday, 13 March 2008
The latest on what's happening in Hollywood.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
SXSW Review-Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"
Written by Sean McBride
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
I’d like to buy the world a beer….
“Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?”
Weinstein Co. Films
Directed by Morgan Spurlock
2 ½ Stars
AUSTIN/SXSW –
In the SXSW post show commentary, director Morgan Spurlock was asked
about his particular style of film-journalism, currently on display in
“Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?” Spurlock suggested that while
he loves traditional documentary filmmaking, he finds them bland “like
spinach,” quipping that “It’s good for you, but it’s still spinach,
man.” Asked for an alternative, he suggests “Docu-fun.”
“Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?” certainly qualifies as
docu-fun, or perhaps fun-docu because the light-and-breezy nature of
the film does tend to overwhelm the journalism. That’s not necessarily
a bad thing, and the film is certainly a lot of fun to watch, but I
seriously doubt if anybody is going to leave the theater having learned
anything about the Middle East that they didn’t already know.
