By Andrew Ross
You might want to wait until you’ve seen City of God before planning your vacation in Rio de Janeiro. This gritty reality-based film shows the audience a side of Rio that is far removed from the soccer playing, bikini-clad, post-card paradise normally presented to the world. Picture the hardest slums and projects in North America.… Continue reading City of God
By Jeff Kubik
In the early 1950s, Vietnam was a colonial possession defended by French occupation forces. Its people were the companions of visiting troops and the casualties of clashes between French and communist soldiers. Caught in a triangle of incompatible allegiances, the people of Vietnam endured massacres and economic devastation.Directed by Philip Noyce, The Quiet American–adapted from… Continue reading The Quiet American
With comic book heroes becoming big screen hits, it might be easy to say that this fad will soon wear out just like all others. But the way the movies keep improving, this fad may be here to stay.Films such as X-Men and Spiderman have had such great success, it’s no wonder Marvel was willing… Continue reading Daredevil
By Jeff Kubik
Disclaimer: These are generic movie reviews. All style, no content. That’s why they’re in ap. There is no movie; this is not Entertainment, this is Academic Probation. Look at the corner of the page! Idiot.Jeff KubikMovie Criticcrap (krap) n. [[< ML crappa, chaff]] [Vulgar] 1. nonsense 2. junk; trash 3. this worthless, stupid, waste of… Continue reading Tinseltown makes a noise, but out of which end?
By Adam Goetz
Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino puts honest people into unlikely situations while playing around with chronology in this landmark film. The dialogue between the killers and thieves give them an undeniable human quality that disassociates them from their actions and inevitably creates audience sympathy.The Cell: Tarsem Singh does an amazing job of creating a believable representation… Continue reading If you die before seeing these movies,
it’s safe to say you’ve wasted your life.
By Andrew Ross
You’ve probably never heard of the Funk Brothers–very few people have–but it’s virtually guaranteed that you’ve heard their work. They were the Detroit studio band for Motown Records from 1959-1970, and they played and created the music on every Motown record from that era. In the process, they played on more number one records than… Continue reading Behind the hits
Whether or not this was the best film of the year, or even my favourite, I can’t confirm. But, like a piece of history that helps shape your conception of the world, it ingrained itself into my conscience and left me decidedly enriched. Frida is the story of an artist who, crippled early on in… Continue reading Frida
By James Keller
Let’s make two things perfectly clear: First, Bowling for Columbine doesn’t serve as a rock-solid argument for gun control. And second, it was never meant to.Instead, Michael Moore’s latest documentary chronicling America’s violent gun culture serves as an insightfully clever and painfully descriptive ethnography of the people behind the gun lobby, the American pro-gun movement,… Continue reading Bowling for Columbine
How Ryan Gosling went from Breaker High to this is beyond me. The former A-Channel shipmate plays Daniel Balint, an intelligent young up-and-comer in New York’s fascist underground. His well-spoken arguments and strong anti-Semitism soon attract larger audiences, eager to hear his misguided rantings. With a little bit of guidance from the leaders of an… Continue reading Believer
I’ve never been one for love stories, but Steven Shainberg’s Secretary left me with that warm, fuzzy feeling that only an S&M love story can give you. Adapted from a short story by Mary Gaitskill, Secretary follows twenty-something Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a cutter fresh out of the psych ward, in her search for a… Continue reading Secretary