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The Departed Effect: Singin’ Them Low-down Remake Blues

By Rick, on January 26th, 2009 |

Remakes are almost never a good idea. Yet Hollywood — and others — keep right on making them, seemingly with greater and greater [...]

Gran Torino

By Rick, on January 22nd, 2009 |

A funny thing happened while I sat through Gran Torino: I discovered I liked it, in spite of its rather simple schematics, its howler moments, and its generally amateurish [...]

Dardos-like Behavior

By Rick, on January 19th, 2009 |

I am the proud recipient of one of the premiere awards in the blogosphere, the Dardos. I am humbled. Humbled and proud. Aren’t those two things [...]

“Standard Operating Procedure” examines the the scapegoating of American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Along the way, it looks at the nature of photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts, and how they [...]

Encounters at the End of the World

By Rick, on January 14th, 2009 |

Werner Herzog makes a documentary that’s nothing about penguins. Well, there ARE penguins in it, but they’re obsessive penguins . . . [...]

Wall-E Coyote

By Rick, on January 9th, 2009 |

Wall-E has taken the country by storm, topping a whole slew of prestigious year-end lists. Does it deserve [...]

Bring Me the Head of Brad Pitt

By Rick, on January 7th, 2009 |

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has hit the theaters, highly anticipated and with state-of-the-art visual effects. But are they put to good [...]

Another Year-end List That’s Not Mine

By Rick, on January 3rd, 2009 |

Here’s the annual Village Voice/L.A. Weekly critics poll. Some think critics’ polls are more subject to group think than individual lists. Others think people who say that are the ones who don’t get to vote in the [...]

Thoughts on Doubt

By Rick, on January 2nd, 2009 |

“Doubt” has a dream cast — the great Meryl Streep, current golden-boy Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams, one of those actors perennially in the category of Who Knew She Could Really Act. But is it any [...]