Children of Men
[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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People who kill people sometimes come to feel sorry for those they killed. Who knew?
Six Days, Seven Nights, directed by Ivan Reitman, tries and does not completely fail to be an old- fashioned sort of romantic comedy. Anne Heche plays Robin Monroe, deputy editor of a New York fashion magazine who meets cute with Harrison Ford as Quinn Harris, a crusty old souse of a pilot living the life…
Children of the Revolution, written and directed by Peter Duncan, represents the less attractive side of the Australian sensibility I have so often had occasion to praise here. For it is a too-natural development out of healthy skepticism to turn merely cynical, and that is what, I take it, we have here. There is, to…
The problem with the super-hero is how unsuper everybody else has to be to make him one
A not-so rollicking comedy about infidelity and divorce? What’s wrong with this picture?
The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.