Hurt Locker, The (2008)

Another funny, touching film about the relations between fathers and sons from the director of The Lost Embrace

The Beach by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) is obviously le dernier cri in hip, but it is a mess of a movie—sort of Lord of the Flies meets Blue Lagoon. In short, it doesn’t know where it’s going. On the one hand it very much likes the idea of the hippie colony on an almost inaccessible…

Science fiction is the parent genre of all post-modernism. If, as Hemingway said, all subsequent American fiction arises out of Huckleberry Finn, all post-modern movies arise out of Plan Nine from Outer Space and other B-grade schlock sci-fi movies of the 1950s — movies which have been enjoyed ever since by the cognoscenti more for…

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Jailed for arson? Poor Danny! Don’t you know he did it for our vanishing wilderness? Soft-core propaganda from the environmentalist left.

Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election