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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Bruce McCulloch does the best he can to make a movie his fellow Canadian, Tom Green, cannot reduce to an episode of “The Tom Green Show.” He can’t.
Ed Burns, a born movie-star rather than an actor, is a confirmed narcissist and therefore the last man in the world to be playing a confidence man
The Opposite of Sex, written and directed by Don Roos, is a young man’s film with all the virtues that natural wit and talent can supply in the absence of maturity, depth and judgment. These last named are qualities which often come to people with time, so we may hope for splendid things in the…
Another foray by Dinesh D’Souza into the lists in order to break a lance on President Obama — and Howard Zinn. At least the latter is effectively unhorsed.
The iron rule in Hollywood is that if you’ve got a hit, you’ve got to have a sequel. But what happens when the hit depends, as last year’s Blair Witch Project did, on a necessarily temporary illusion of reality? Fool me once and I’ll give you a good review; fool me twice and I’m an…
A touching and well-made movie from India whose motto, worthy of emulation by Hollywood, is "less is more"