Gone Baby Gone: Bad Mother! No Kid for You!
One's fitness for parenting is an ultimately arbitrary question.
Thriller Reviews
- Alien: Horror as Sunday School Lesson
- Blind Fear: Seeing Through the Eyes of the Blind
- Cellular: In Crisis Alone
- Dirty Pretty Things: Educational & Entertaining
- Flightplan: Luminous Beings
- The Game: Who Wants to See?
- The Prestige: Dealing with the Darkest Magic
- The Village: A New Kind of Vision
- The Village: Don't Be Frightened
- The Village: Intentional Community, Vital Lives
- Children of Men: Against Politics
- Gone Baby Gone: Bad Mother! No Kid for You!
- One Hour Photo: Gluttony, Envy, Idolatry
- The Village: The Scourge of "Community"
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February 28, 2008One Hour Photo: Gluttony, Envy, Idolatry
To envy the gluttonous is to set oneself up for a disastrous fall.
The Prestige: Dealing with the Darkest Magic
Each of Nolan's films deals with man's desperate attempt to break free of the shackles of humanity . . .
Blind Fear: Seeing Through the Eyes of the Blind
Erika relies heavily on her sense of sound to navigate her surroundings, a facility Berry ably conveys with camerawork . . .
Children of Men: Against Politics
These elements simply serve as vehicles that highlight the main point: the role of formal political life in stunting moral development . . .
The Village: The Scourge of "Community"
The community s/he creates will be an arbitrary, cardboard replica of the real thing (and thus, will be doomed to fail), or . . .
The Village: Intentional Community, Vital Lives
It’s frightening to consider how much of our middle-class identity rest upon ideas, possessions, and experiences whose very value lies in the fact that not everyone has access to those same ideas, possessions, and experiences . . .
The Game: Who Wants to See?
The Game is a 90s noir thriller that Hitchcock would have loved . . .
The Village: Don't Be Frightened
Wouldn’t that be nice? To have the evil always on the outside, to have it so easy to identify by, say, its color, its size, its family of origin, or its nationality . . .
Dirty Pretty Things: Educational & Entertaining
Frears challenges our preconceptions about what constitutes both "dirty" and "pretty" . . .