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Captain America
With all of the superheros making it to the big screen these days, there seem to be just as many misses as there are hits. The challenge seems to be translating the fantastical element of the comic universe into real-world existence these characters have to endure in a live-action film — while still appealing to […]
Life of Pi
The durability of the human spirit comes into focus under the expanded eye of Ang Lee’s ambitious opus Life of Pi. Think the attempted magnificent reach of this year’s earlier tanker Cloud Atlas molded down into Cast Away. I won’t say Ang Lee, an auteur of his own making, entirely succeeds in his gargantuan spiritual […]
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
We all gotta start somewhere. Robert Rodriguez, one of the few mainstream directors who could hold his own opposite Quentin Tarantino, began his career with an extremely low-budget film called El Mariachi. He soon followed that with 1995’s Desperado. And while neither film was a cinematic masterpiece (I reviewed the former and latter), they were […]