Obscenity vs. Inanity
Josh Rosenblatt
151-180 of 473 entries
Screens, Oct. 18, 2008
Closing Statements
Screens, Oct. 17, 2008
W.
Oliver Stone’s Bush portrait is a tale of two movies: one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside an administration gone loopy on ideological zealotry.
Movie Review, Oct. 17, 2008
Flow: For Love of Water
Documentary about the degradation of the world’s water supply through environmental indifference, chemical irresponsibility, mass privatization, and corporate chicanery.
Movie Review, Oct. 17, 2008
I Defy You, Ira Glass
Screens, Oct. 16, 2008
A Few Issues
Screens, Oct. 15, 2008
Marxist Philosophy
Screens, Oct. 15, 2008
Best of the Best (With Qualifications)
Screens, Oct. 15, 2008
The True Value of a Seven-Cent Nickle
Screens, Oct. 14, 2008
Game On! and the World According to Kaufmans
Kaufman versus Kaufman
Screens, Oct. 14, 2008
The Road to Degradation Is Painted Gold
Screens, Oct. 14, 2008
A Quick Summary ...
Screens, Oct. 13, 2008
Addiction and the Meaning of Life
Screens, Oct. 13, 2008
Sweet Film Fight
Screens, Oct. 13, 2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.
Movie Review, Oct. 10, 2008
The Express
The story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, is full of heart-pumping stadium heroics and quiet acts of dignity.
Movie Review, Oct. 10, 2008
The Stuff That Cubicles Are Made Of
Visioneers
Screens, Oct. 10, 2008
Flash of Genius
Based on the true story of Robert Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper only to have his idea stolen by the Ford Motor Co., is a real David and Goliath story.
Movie Review, Oct. 3, 2008
Fireproof
God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.
Movie Review, Oct. 3, 2008
Eagle Eye
Too bad it's autumn: With its frenetic car chases; near-erotic fascination with explosions, gadgets, and guns; and disposable storyline, Eagle Eye is the very definition of a summer blockbuster.
Movie Review, Sept. 26, 2008
I Served the King of England
The new film from Czech New Wave hero Jirí Menzel presents a whimsical version of 20th century European history.
Movie Review, Sept. 26, 2008
Burn, Baby, Burn
On 'Fahrenheit 451' and why good democracy should make you feel bad
Screens, Sept. 26, 2008
My Best Friend's Girl
Dane Cook stars in this rom-com about a serial womanizer who accidentally falls in love with his best friend’s girl.
Movie Review, Sept. 26, 2008
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
This documentary account of Election Day 2004 thinks it has the answer: conspiracy and treason, Republican-style.
Movie Review, Sept. 19, 2008
The Edge of Heaven
This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.
Movie Review, Sept. 19, 2008
Lakeview Terrace
By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.
Movie Review, Sept. 19, 2008
Burn After Reading
The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.
Movie Review, Sept. 12, 2008
Ghosts Are Good Company
AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema
Screens, Sept. 5, 2008
Disaster Movie
We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.
Movie Review, Sept. 5, 2008
The Little Red Truck
A chronicle of the work of the Missoula Children’s Theatre, which travels the country to introduce children to the joys of musical theatre.
