The first installment of Lars von Trier’s “USA – Land of Opportunities” trilogy, Dogville, was a crowd divider. Against the arty scenery and the one set-sans-walls, there was a certain artlessness in its dialogue and its blatant concepts of injustice, vulnerability and the exploitation of power. The heroine turned out to be an anti-heroine,...
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Wildly entertaining and side-splittingly hilarious, Little Miss Sunshine is a movie that celebrates the inner loser in us all. It isn’t an underdog story where the slow kid wins the race, or where the ugly ducking becomes the beautiful swan, or where the small kid gets the best of the bullies. The slow kid...
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Just because it is a quintessential Hollywood film doesn’t automatically mean its crap. So what’s it about? Four guys go into a New Yorker Bank and take hostages. The Police arrives and waits outside for them. A cat and mouse game begins and lots of twists happen from now on. Who wants to play...
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Yes, sometimes it’s nice and good to see a film that satisfies you, that gives you what you want. At the end, all problems are solved, all questions answered, the good are good and the bad? Are bad. True is true and right is right. Well, “Hidden” is not such a film. It is...
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Five years ago, Fast Food Nation was a book written by a relatively unknown investigative journalist named Eric Schlosser. It was well researched and very insightful, and like Morgan Spurlock did a few years later with his movie along the same vein, it got people talking about what they were eating. When it was...
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I’m sure you’ve already heard it. This is a film about George Bush, a scathing critique of the man, his presidency, his policy, his war, his family, his friends, business and political associates, his lies, stupidity, arrogance, irresolution, opportunism, and legitimacy. I’m sure I forgot a few. And its true, Moore exploits every opportunity...
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