Film
'The Baader Meinhof Complex' offers a view from the political fringe
By: Brandon Conradis
“The Baader Meinhof Complex” is a fascinating example of a film about the past made to address politics of the present. It’s not an overtly political film — in the sense that it doesn’t voice its own opinions about the proceedings — but it certainly poses many relevant and controversial questions regarding the origins of terrorism and the necessary acts a government must take to stop it.
'2012' has giant explosions and no plot
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By: Nick Coston
As a work of cinema, “2012” deserves no stars. It’s a horrible film with horrible acting and horrible editing. But as an experience, as a ride, as a freakish and brainless parade of explosions, it earns five Mountain Dews, ten bags of beef jerky and three lower-back tattoos.
With mixed results, 'Men Who Stare' reaches for classic war satire
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By: Kavi Shekhar Pandey
A certain degree of lunacy and silly behavior is expected from a film with a title as peculiar as “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” And antics abound, as the movie follows in the tradition of “MASH” and “Catch-22” with its absurdist approach to war and all of its troubles.
Christmas gets creepy with Carrey's 'Carol'
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By: Nick Coston
There is a warmth within Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” that has made it a beloved holiday story for 166 years. Successful adaptations of the book have tapped into this sincerity and honored Dickens’s original work of spiritual redemption. Unfortunately, this season’s animated theatrical spin on “A Christmas Carol” is entirely devoid of the heart present in other, better versions of the story. As a result, its wildly impressive CGI visuals and a spirited digital performance from Jim Carrey are powerless to accentuate the narrative.
A well designed biopic for Coco Chanel
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By: Jennifer Xu
Coco Chanel catapulted to the forefront of the fashion world at the age of 40, breaking into an industry primarily inhabited by men with her simple, elegant designs. But this biopic is not about fashion or men. Instead, it’s about a woman with high-society aspirations steadily clawing her way to the top.
Andrew Lapin: Foreign is not a film genre
By: Andrew Lapin
There is a continued insistence in the movie industry to lump all international movies into a single genre known as “foreign,” and this mindset has got to go. It’s a nonsensical, outdated and in many ways xenophobic concept, as though a film not made by Americans isn't worthy of sharing their categorizations. “Foreign films” can still be dramas, comedies, fantasies or family-friendly, but you’d never know because they’re all stuffed into art-house cinemas and the same corner of the video store.
If you saw the trailer, don't bother with 'The Fourth Kind'
By: Timothy Rabb
Rarely has a film been as misleadingly self-promoting as “The Fourth Kind,” a new film from director Olatunde Osunsanmi.
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