The Unforeseen neatly encapsulates the problems of the contemporary political non-fiction film.
One can’t help but feel the presence of producer Terrence Malick, a longtime Austin resident and with whom the project was originally conceived.
Lions for Lambs is, to put it mildly, beyond stagey.
The average baseball movie is not actually about baseball.
To say that Charlotte’s Web doesn’t dishonor its source sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it’s actually the highest praise.
Charlotte’s Web tempts us to look for allegory in Charlotte’s politicking for the other white meat.
Trudell belongs to a strain of documentary biopic wherein one-sided reverence is the principle impetus.
Miramax’s shelf-cleaning project continues with this prototypical WE-channel mushfest.
You wouldn’t know it from the cover art, but the excellent video transfer on this Clearing DVD shows that Robert Redford is rapidly pushing 70.
The Clearing needed the firm hand of a Hollywood insubordinate, not a sycophant.
A pristine example of rock-solid studio filmmaking getting the professional treatment on DVD.
Tony Scott knows how to put on a good show.
The film is a flag-waving action yarn even more ham-fisted than Pearl Harbor.