What Would Jesus Buy?
The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.
Josh Rosenblatt
301-330 of 473 entries
Movie Review, Dec. 7, 2007
When White Meat Attacks
Troma's 'Poultrygeist' pokes holes (and punctures skin) in our fast-food nation
Screens, Dec. 7, 2007
Holly
Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.
Movie Review, Nov. 30, 2007
When There's Nothing Left to Burn ...
Cinematexas throws itself a Viking Funeral
Screens, Nov. 30, 2007
The Toros: Season Three Preview (First Less-Than-Successful Attempt)
Sports, Nov. 25, 2007
I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba is a remarkable marriage of technical experimentation, artistic innovation, radical storytelling, and left-wing politics
Screens, Nov. 23, 2007
This Christmas
The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.
Movie Review, Nov. 23, 2007
The Intersection of Personal and Political
AFS Essential Cinema profiles Philippe Garrel
Screens, Nov. 23, 2007
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman, and directed by the writer of Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium has whimsy coming out of its ears.
Movie Review, Nov. 16, 2007
Dear Pillow
An 85-minute tribute to erotic confusion, the locally made Dear Pillow is both fascinated by and hostile to the absurdities of our culture's Puritanism and takes obvious joy in poking holes in them
Screens, Nov. 16, 2007
Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
Movie Review, Nov. 16, 2007
Sleuth
Surprisingly, this powerhouse combination of writer Harold Pinter, director Kenneth Branagh, and co-stars Michael Caine and Jude Law adds up to a load of nonsense.
Movie Review, Nov. 9, 2007
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Despite the film's good-natured sense of absurdity about the afterlife, it's not enough to make up for its lack of real humor or meaning.
Movie Review, Nov. 2, 2007
The Comebacks
A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.
Movie Review, Oct. 26, 2007
Reservation Road
Crime and Punishment comes to New England in this story about the aftermath of a child's death.
Movie Review, Oct. 26, 2007
The Scene
Jones' town
Screens, Oct. 26, 2007
Things We Lost in the Fire
This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.
Movie Review, Oct. 19, 2007
Into the Wild
Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.
Movie Review, Oct. 19, 2007
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
This week Milestone is releasing the director's edition on DVD for the first time, complete with 10 minutes of previously unseen footage, and even with no other extras to speak of, it's a cause for celebration
Screens, Oct. 19, 2007
AFS Essential's Torn From the Motherland: Films From the African Diaspora
Oct. 23-Nov. 20
Screens, Oct. 19, 2007
Feel the Noise
In this overstuffed movie, an aspiring Harlem rapper finds his artistic calling and homeland pride with Puerto Rico's reggaeton.
Movie Review, Oct. 12, 2007
It Came From Barton Springs!
Screens, Oct. 2, 2007
Stranger Than Paradise
When it was first released in 1984, Jim Jarmusch's tale of three lost souls going nowhere was a revelation – a dry-as-the-desert revelation in black and white, or rather gray and lighter gray
Screens, Sept. 28, 2007
The Game Plan
The Rock plays a quarterback whose life is altered by the daughter he didn't know he had.
Movie Review, Sept. 28, 2007
Outsourced
When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.
Movie Review, Sept. 28, 2007
In the Valley of Elah
Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.
Movie Review, Sept. 21, 2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic of misguided hero worship.
Movie Review, Sept. 21, 2007
Mr. Woodcock
Mr. Woodcock is funny for exactly five minutes, with the kind of subversive humor that boosted Billy Bob Thornton, but the rest is just a self-pitying, half-hearted retread.
Movie Review, Sept. 14, 2007
The Brothers Solomon
With three great comic talents in Will Forte, Will Arnett, and director Bob Odenkirk working together in relatively untried and controversial comedy territory, the only result is a syrupy fable about love and family.
Movie Review, Sept. 14, 2007
Interview
Steve Buscemi directs and co-stars in this film with Sienna Miller as the pair play out an emotionally charged pas de deux.
