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[See “Avatar and the Flight from Reality” in The New Atlantis of Spring, 2010, under “Articles,” April 29, 2010]
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[See “Avatar and the Flight from Reality” in The New Atlantis of Spring, 2010, under “Articles,” April 29, 2010]
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We should welcome the fact that Oliver Stone’s 9/11 movie is without an explicit left-wing agenda, but the absence of one also makes the film the victim of its own unbridled emotion
Next Stop, Wonderland, written and directed by Brad Anderson, is a charming romantic comedy with a great many funny moments, though it doesn’t quite pull everything together in its rather unsatisfactory ending. But it has an excellent beginning. Erin (Hope Davis) comes home one day to find her live-in boyfriend, Sean (Phil Hoffman), moving out…
The arrogance of the evil Disney empire as it colonizes the world, both in space and in time, on behalf of spoiled American pre-teens continues. Characteristically, it has chosen for its next property to be conquered and laid waste a peculiarly inappropriate vehicle in Tarzan. The story of Tarzan, that is, absolutely depends on the…
The latest in this year’s spate of Bush-bashing documentaries goes after Karl Rove
The Devil’s Own by Alan J. Pakula is a dishonest film in the way that we have come to expect Hollywood films to be dishonest when they deal with politics. Here we see noble IRA terrorists fighting only against heavily armed (and comically incompetent) British soldiers instead of blowing up innocent civilians, which is what…