Beyond the Rhetoric

Most people know about the most popular movie genres. You might say it’s an action movie, a drama, or a documentary. If you want to be more specific, you might say it’s a buddy comedy or a nature documentary. But then again, you can be even more descriptive and sometimes this requires coming up with [...]

I just need to get away. It’s a feeling that is very common among, well, pretty much everyone. We’ve grown so accustomed to our daily routines, going through the same kinds of motions each and every day, and this can make life a tad on the boring side. At the same time, most of us [...]

“I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.” The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are scheduled to take place a little later today, so I thought that it would be apt to highlight a winner from last year’s Oscar Awards. As you may recall, Kathryn Bigelow [...]

Beowulf (2007) Director Robert Zemeckis has done some amazing things. You might remember watching Polar Express some years back, getting a haunting 3D representation of Tom Hanks in his numerous roles. A similar kind of technology was used in Beowulf with Ray Winstone playing the title role. I almost had high hopes for this incarnation [...]

Fast and Furious. It’s faster and furiouser than ever before. Well, not really, but that’s the kind of intensely creative dialogue that you should be expecting from this fourth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise. Don’t expect anything close to sophisticated rhetoric and mind-twisting conundrums, because that’s not how Dominic Toretto and Brian O’Conner [...]