I am glad, in a way, that the new French animated film Renaissance has been dubbed for its US release, and that is because this obviates me from commenting on the dialogue. If I had to take that into account, I could not recommend this film to any living person, nor any dead person, nor […]

There is a documentary about director Michel Gondry titled I’ve Been Twelve Forever. This is not clever and ironic: it is merely accurate. While filmmakers in general can be said to have a strong case of arrested development, very few are so willfully childish. This, at least, was at the forefront of my mind while […]

An inevitable problem with seeing a movie weeks after it opened, and then only because of the many good reviews I’ve read, is having nothing original to say about it. This I already knew. Such is my experience with Half Nelson, the Sundance-beloved drama about an inner city history teacher with a crack addiction and […]

In the abstract, The U.S. vs. John Lennon seems divided between being the story of a place in time told through the prism of one man who embodied that time, or being the story of one man who tried to change the world. It’s a somewhat scattered documentary of the state of the Vietnam War […]