This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Many people see Red Cliff as Hong Kong actioneer John Woo’s return to form. I’m not one of them. John Woo has never once made a film I’ve liked, though he has made at least one I’ve [...]
Red Cliff
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Film Reviews
Tags:Chang Chen·China·Han Dynasty·John Woo·Red Cliff·tactics·Takeshi Kaneshiro·Tony Leung·war·Zhang Fengyi
9
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Film Reviews
This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
I first saw Shane Acker’s Oscar-nominated short film on which 9 is based at the Telluride Film Festival nearly five years ago. It was an intriguing film: dark yet captivating, dynamic yet [...]
Tags:9·apocalypse·Cat Beast·CG animation·Christopher Plummer·Elijah Wood·Jennifer Connelly·John C. Reily·machines·rag doll·Shane Acker·short film·Somewhere Over the Rainbow·steampunk·The Wizard of Oz·Tim Burton·Timur Bekmambetov·war
The Hurt Locker
July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Film Reviews
1/2
The Hurt Locker is an extraordinarily uncomfortable movie to watch, not because it is poorly made, but because it succeeds so brilliantly at what it does — place its audience directly in the crosshairs of life in war-torn Iraq. This is one of the best Iraq war movies yet made (though it is not the [...]
Tags:Anthony Mackie·bombs·Brian Geraghty·EOD·IED·iraq·Jeremy Renner·Kathryn Bigelow·soldiers·The Hurt Locker·war
