Also by Ray Pride
How Soon is Now?
The stockings are still hung by the chimney with care. Surveying a couple hundred year-end lists by movie reviewers and entertainment writers can be a soul-squishing thing, particularly if you read the reasoning and rationales, the dithers, the doubts, the demurrals, the dishing and dashing to and fro, recurring, recurring. Oh, that's what "The Dark Knight" was about! (No, it wasn't, but thanks for watching)
(2009-01-06)
Tip of the Week
Koji Masutani's "Virtual JFK (Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived)" is an intriguing array of counterfactual arguments, taking up in documentary form the argument that Kennedy's prior decisions indicated that his course in the Vietnam War would have been as disastrous as anyone else's
(2009-01-06)
Body Art
"The Wrestler" sears because of its two central roles, Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a beat-down wrestler in his early 50s, and Marisa Tomei as "Cassidy" (nee Pam), a stripper he feels close to as the walls of his life close in around him. Brave and sometimes literally naked: they make a tremendous match as performers. And that dovetailing seems a suitable fit for the films Darren Aronofsky's made so far: Try as the mind might, thought cannot save the flesh
(2008-12-30)
Tip of the Week
Fans of Richard Yates' elegant, cold-hearted, bitter, angry, unforgettable novel have begun pouring out reminiscences of discovering its brutal charms while summering at writers' colonies and inveighing against its screen adaptation (written by Justin Haythe, directed by Sam Mendes). "Revolutionary Road" is a great novel, but so acid that to fully reflect Yates' brimstone would be near unendurable. While the death of dreams is one of Yates' subjects, Mendes' version more reflects the death of a marriage in suburban 1955
(2008-12-30)
In the Love for Mood
(2008-12-23)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-23)
Why So Serious?
(2008-12-16)
You Feel Lucky, Hmong?
(2008-12-16)
(2008-12-16)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-09)
You are a Crook
(2008-12-09)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-02)
