V

The 1980s TV hit was updated for a post-9/11 audience, introducing elements of social criticism in its portrayal of how the arrival of huge spaceships affected people in the world's…

Blowup: Don’t Analyze It to Death

Photo: MGM I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a film student and rediscovering it ten years later was a delight. Perhaps it is one of…

Hurt Locker: Explosive Experience

Photo: Summit Entertainment Doctors love to complain about movies that portray their line of work. So do cops, fire-fighters, journalists… and soldiers. Many Iraq War vets harbor contempt toward this…

Casablanca: You Must Remember This

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: Warner Casablanca was just another movie meant to bolster the spirit of American audiences at a time when the nation had just entered an…

Clockwork Orange: Hanging With Your Droogs

Malcolm McDowell. Photo: Warner Author Anthony Burgess allegedly complained that this film adaptation of his novel became so talked-about that it overshadowed everything else he did. Director Stanley Kubrick's film…

When Darkness Falls

Three stories are told concurrently: Nina (Bahar Pars) tries to escape the cultural stranglehold that her family’s patriarch has on her; successful journalist Carina (Lia Boysen) tries to cover up…

Girl with Hyacinths: Secrets and Lies

Eva Henning and Anders Ek. Photo: Terrafilm In this time and age, it’s pretty much impossible to write a review of Hasse Ekman’s most accomplished film without talking about the…

V: The Final Battle 

The resistance against the alien visitors grows stronger but the group needs a breakthrough; meanwhile, Robin's (Blair Tefkin) affair with an alien officer has startling effects. The sequel to V…

JFK: Watch Responsibly

Photo: Warner Some time after the premiere of Oliver Stone’s JFK, Roger Ebert ran into Walter Cronkite and received a “tongue-lashing” for having praised the film. In Cronkite’s view, it was full…