In his fifth and latest feature, The Darjeeling Limited, American writer/director Wes Anderson and his familiar cast of goofball collaborators take to India in a comic tragedy. Featured are Francis, Jack, and Peter Whitman, three estranged brothers who reunite a year after their father’s death for a “spiritual” journey of reconciliation. (more…)
Director Ang Lee has followed up his controversial 2005 hit and pop culture punchline, Brokeback Mountain, with another film that is getting more press for its sexual content than its beautiful construction. (more…)
According to IMDB.com, there have been two films called Outsourced released in the past year — with a third planned for 2008. If anything, it indicates that vanishing jobs and resentment among US workers provides fertile ground for filmmakers. Surprisingly, director John Jeffcoat’s take on the topic comes as a modest romantic comedy. (more…)
In Wasted Orient, documentary filmmaker Kevin Fritz attempts to avoid aesthetic pitfalls while following the regionally famous Beijing-based punk band Joyside during a multiple-city tour across China. The result is a frenetic glimpse into the daily life of a young punk band trying to break out in the country’s small and struggling rock scene. (more…)
It has been thirty-five years, and many space adventure movies have come and gone, since men last stepped on the moon. Yet in David Sington’s new documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, the experience has never seemed so vivid and so untouchable to those of us stranded on Earth. (more…)
History of DJ Krush, a three-disc retrospective on the career of said artist, packages together two documentaries and a disc of videos spanning fifteen years of the ambient/trip-hop turntablist’s career. (more…)
The commercial success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth broadened mainstream discussion of environmental issues. The 11th Hour, a documentary produced and narrated by green poster boy Leonardo DiCaprio, continues where the former vice president ended, but further leans on the crisis button. (more…)
For those expecting Manufactured Landscapes to be a documentary about the work and/or life of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (as his name is listed above the title of the film and promoted as its subject), disappointment may be soon to follow. (more…)
Coming as a big-budget story masquerading as an indie flick, Magnolia Pictures melodrama Cashback attempts to dupe moviegoers into attendance with one slightly interesting aspect: its protagonist, collegiate artist Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff), takes up a late-night shift at a grocery store and pretends that he can stop time. (more…)
Talk To Me, an affecting biopic from director Kasi Lemmons, details the real-life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, an ex-con who became one of Washington D.C.’s most popular radio deejays during the height of the ’60s Civil Rights Movement. (more…)
