2004
Review: Layer Cake
Take a story about several denizens of the criminal British underworld, mix in a few spoonfuls of dark humor and a couple of cups of violence, a handful of plot twists to taste, and what do you end up with? Snatch. Well, OK, yes, you do, but if you mix the recipe up [...]
Review: Team America: World Police
Man, Trey Parker has got no love for Michael Bay. Not only is Team America: World Police constructed as a brutal satire of the lamebrained explody Bay oeuvre (Transformers and the trainwreck Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the Bad Boys flicks, The Rock, Armageddon), he even has a song in the movie devoted entirely [...]
Review: A Love Song for Bobby Long
The New Orleans found in A Love Song for Bobby Long doesn’t map to the real New Orleans: it’s a romantic impression of a mythical New Orleans, all hot jazz and cool rain, a city imagined by writers for generations as a safe haven for broken creatives. This New Orleans can’t help, of [...]
Review: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
At some point during the last few years–I think quite likely it was during the making of Charlie’s Angels, if not earlier–Bill Murray decided it was time for him to put away his trademarked schtick for awhile and do some actual acting. Oh, he’d tried doing the dramatic stuff early in his career, of [...]
Review: In Good Company
It happens all the time in all manner of businesses, from Hollywood backlots to sports fields to corporate boardrooms: seasoned, talented veteran with plenty of good years left gets pushed to the side in favor of hotshot rookie with none of the experience but all of the flash and promise. Our culture has [...]
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