Also by Ray Pride
Tip of the Week
Steven Soderbergh's attitude toward his biography of the two most significant passages in the life of Che Guevara as an Argentine doctor transformed into guerilla fighter—Cuba, Bolivia—is that a movie on such a freighted, fraught subject that did not offend one set of bystanders or another wouldn't be very good at all
(2009-01-13)
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
(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)
