Month: March 2006

Whenever I hear that Hollywood is hopelessly liberal, I cite reactionary claptrap like Derailed…

“North Butt”

A very young Tom Skerrit, a jacked-up muscle-car driving Keenen Wynn and the high priest of the Church of Satan–Anton LaVey–are all present.

My final complaint is Madonna. To make matters worse, she’s in this movie.

Dirty Pretty Things, the new film from director Stephen Frears, is, in fact, the best film I have seen so far this year.

In fact, the movie is actually quite influential, which I’ll get into in a bit, and it has some fantastic scenes.

David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence is undoubtedly the most wildly overpraised film of the year.

Perhaps his better days are behind him, and perhaps he no longer has the courage to make a straight drama…