Also by Ray Pride
Why So Serious?
Greater love hath no movie reviewer than for his or her year-end listmaking. Listen to the bite-sized litanies zipping across the internet and you'd be convinced the best movie you can see this holiday season would be "Slumdog Millionaire," with its essentially despairing content—as in Dickens, children will be well and truly endangered—ennobled and made shiny-good by bright, bold Danny Boyle adrenaline. But tragedy for tragedy's sake is on the front burner. It's nothing new, releasing dead-serious pictures at the dead of Christmas
(2008-12-16)
You Feel Lucky, Hmong?
Holy Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award! "Grand Torino" is a dark comedy, an engaged anecdote about class and race, a stripped-down example of palooka art, and Clint Eastwood, at 78, has made a modest yet almost radical entertainment. It's a gleeful astonishment
(2008-12-16)
While the direction of "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Seven Pounds" doesn't match the pitched tumult of Italian writer-director Gabriele Muccino's 2001 "The Last Kiss" (L'ultimo bacio), his work is inescapably Italian in temperament
(2008-12-16)
Tip of the Week
One of the most startling books I've read this year is Naomi Wolf's "The End of America," an engaged, furious polemic about the similarity of authoritarian impulses in this country after 9/11 to those of fascist regimes like in Italy and Germany before and during World War II
(2008-12-09)
You are a Crook
(2008-12-09)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-02)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-24)
Where the Hearth Is
(2008-11-18)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-18)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-11)
Titanic Masala
(2008-11-11)
Exquisite Tenderness
(2008-11-04)
