Don't Bother
[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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It’s nice to know, as I’m sure I’ve said before, that somewhere in the world life on celluloid is still an earnest business and not a sly, postmodern in-joke as it has so largely become in the pampered West. You might have to go to China, however, still not recovered from nearly 50 years of…
Hurlyburly directed by Anthony Drazan and written (from his stageplay) by David Rabe has an all-star cast, but it cannot escape from the poverty of its script, in which nothing very much happens (people come and go) and all the characters talk exactly alike—that is in a kind of souped-up psychobabble with an occasionally Pinterian…
A charming combination of prison flick and musical comedy is the best thing on offer this week.
In spite of all the publicity, Red Corner is rather a roundabout apology for than a criticism of the Red Chinese regime. Richard Gere may be personally hostile to the Chinese gerontocracy, but the movie he wishes to showcase his opposition takes its politics in a depressingly familiar direction which leaves Jiang Zemin and his…
Yet another moral tale to illustrate how much is to be deplored by all right-thinking people the “cycle of violence”
Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election
