There’s a famous little book called Hollywood Babylon, filled with pictures and stories about the Silent and Golden Age stars and their scandals. Written by cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, it
Children Underground is one of the more depressing documentaries that you’ll ever see. When dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu banned contraception in the mid-sixties (in order to raise some kind of work
You either like Nick Broomfield or you don’t. Like Michael Moore, he puts himself front and center in the documentary, wandering into frame and asking questions with a painful naïveté.
Bad Boys II finds Mike and Marcus returning as the two most destructive cops in the history of policedom. They’re trying to bust an international drug ring making its way
Yukio Mishima was a complicated and complex man, so a movie about his life would be equally interesting and complex. In the occupational sense, Mishima was a prolific writer who
It’s apt that Peter Jackson set a blurb upon the advertising of the film. Jackson founded his now superstar film career upon exactly this kind of movie - funny, bloody
Bus 174 is another movie about Brazilian street kids. Like City of God, it explores what happens when children are raised in an environment where they are forced to run
It was quite the adventure to get from Portland to California when we went to visit my family for Christmas. Needless to say, if you’ve been watching the news,