The Smackdown Here we have two writer-directors telling coming-of-age stories starring TV stars who are trying to give off a semi-leading-man feature vibe while projecting angst and alienation. Making his debut, writer-director Jonathan Kasden gives […]
The Smackdown Apples and oranges. Comparing films, or people — even apples and oranges — forces tough judgment calls. That’s why it feels safer to key our comparisons on hard, irreducible nuggets of experience. Our […]
The Smackdown What would you do if you knew about events, life-and-death events, in advance of their occurrence? What could you do? Both “Premonition†and “The Gift†use a mother as the main character who […]
The Smackdown It’s the ultimate identity crisis. You have to pretend to be a part of a group that wants to kill everybody in the group you’re really in. That’s the jeopardy that these films […]
The Smackdown I love films on many levels, often for the guilty pleasures they offer. I routinely staged a BAD FILM FESTIVAL back home in Portland, where “They Saved Hitler’s Brain,” “Mars Needs Women” and […]
We’re heading south for our annual migration to the Newport Beach Film Festival. I like a festival that I can drive to and where I don’t have to know how to ski. Plus, I get […]
The Smackdown Quentin Tarantino is a man dangerously close to something, and you’ll get different answers as to what that something is depending on who you ask. Acceptable answers would include: (1) dangerously close to […]
The Smackdown What were once called voyeurs, with links to aberrant behavior and psychiatric studies, are now just… Us. Since the visual media explosion that began halfway through the last century, we have become a […]
 The Smackdown Disney has traditionally relied on the substantial talents of Pixar for all the computer animated films it releases, but those days have sadly come to an end. Both “The Incredibles” and “Meet the […]
The Smackdown Stepping into the ring are, wait a minute, it’ll come to me, um, let me check I wrote it down somewhere, yeah, here it is… two films from writer/directors about people with memory […]
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