Archived Results for May, 2009
(Total Found: 14)
Cold Mountain
As Salmon Struggle Upstream to Return to the Place of their Origin so Must Inman Whenever I am drawn into a discussion about whether the film, "Cold Mountain," is better than the novel by Charles Frazier, the film always loses. That's understandable, considering that Frazier's Cold Mountain is one o
May 30th, 2009
Killshot
Keep the fires stoked Satan until these two murderous, sorry souls can be sent to your nonhuman resources department. That's the message of this tale of a half-breed Native American hitman, who killed for profit and convenient efficiency, and his admiring sidekick, who mimicked his hero at every opportunity.
May 29th, 2009
Nothing But the Truth
Valerie Plame is married to the former Ambassador to Iraq, Jo Wilson, who was very critical of the Bush administration's incursion into Iraq Theater in the World Wide War on Terror. Valerie Plame was an analyst at the CIA, who had been an operative earlier in her career.
May 27th, 2009
Valkyrie
"Valkyrie" is an indispensable component in the historical puzzle that was the 20th Century, and must be considered as such.
May 25th, 2009
Taken
Reminiscent of the ravaging revenge engendered in the first "Death Wish," "Taken" is an action picture with a purpose and a bit of a message. The purpose is to alert children that our world, at its worse, is not a safe or happy place to live, and is best that one keeps their adventures somewha
May 21st, 2009
Cage The Elephant
Yeah the dude sounds like Jack White - Get over it!I have heard it from just about everyone as soon as the vocals for 'Ain't No Rest For The Wicked' begin and to be honest I completely agree. The lead singer, Matt Shultz, definitely has a voice that is a close comparison to Jack White's, but if you
May 21st, 2009
Big Fish
The Biggest Fish in Every Pond was Edward Bloom Or, so he would have us believe. In fact, Tim Burton directed his masterpiece and John August adapted the screenplay from the great Daniel Wallace story just so Edward Bloom could recount his larger that life stories to us, the audience, simply so we c
May 17th, 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reversal of the Natural Birth to Death Process Offers a Curious Perspective In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" a rejected infant overcomes overwhelming obstacles to live a purposeful life in reverse. The natural order of "youth being wasted on the young" is in conflict with the unnatural p
May 14th, 2009
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Perfectly fitting follow up to 2004's American Idiot Green Day started off their career in the 90's as purely a punk band with a bit of pop influence that helped them gain notoriety that extended far beyond their San Francisco roots. That punk pop formula was what they adhered to for many years, that
May 14th, 2009
Doubt
The priest, Father Flynn, took interest in the first "negro" child, a boy named Donald Miller, in that Catholic School, and Sister Aloysius may have been guilty of imagining too much.
May 13th, 2009
Frost / Nixon
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
May 12th, 2009
The Reader
In the melodrama "The Reader," the choices made by the two central characters, when both were in their young twenties, greatly influenced the lives of others, and consequently, their lives as well.
May 11th, 2009
State of Play
The Deception of the Desperate in the Halls of Congress Fall to the Whims of Intrigue "State of Play," possibly, should have been titled State of Prey, considering the maneuvers of the players, who run our congress and deceive the public nearly as much as they deceive each other. Watching Congressma
May 8th, 2009
Andrew Wyeth's Helga Series
Andrew Wyeth's Helga: A Compulsive Fetish or his Best Work? Probably somewhere in between is the best answer. For all who are not familiar with Wyeth and his Helga Series, I shall endeavor to explain it simply as 240 pieces of work (mostly water color studies, some spontaneous sketch studies in mono
May 1st, 2009
