THE POSTMAN at 25: The kind of failure we don't get anymore
by Alex Rudolph, Contributor
The Postman has one-sided conversations with two animal companions and he eats both in stew form.
Printing the Legend: How DANCES WITH WOLVES fails its own good intentions
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
“If we had been there, we would have been like him.”
Simply Not Believable
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Oliver Stone's JFK is all a lie. I don't mean the overall theme of the piece, or even any one individual element of the whole. It's a question of character. Everyone in the film is operating under false pretenses (even, at least as far as wrangling public perception to achieve his goals, Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner). In compiling evidence of a conspiracy to murder the president, Stone throws in every known theory on record, streamlines them all into a cohesive narrative, and outlines them using the book by the real-life Garrison, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy.
Read MoreCriminal
Directed by Ariel Vroman (2016)
by Benjamin Leonard
Best Boy at Moviejawn
“As I sit down to write this, I have no idea where it’s headed.” No, this isn’t a quote from Criminal co-writers Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. It’s what I said to Old Sport, Rosalie Kicks, as I try to make sense out of this mess of a movie.
Read MoreRated M for Meesh or No?: A Perfect World (1993)
by Michelle Lupia
I gotta admit - this was a favorite movie of mine back in 1993, so when given the assignment I kinda already knew the answer. But it is true that certain movies that I once loved now make me feel all the feels that I never want to feel. So I tried to watch the movie with fresh new eyes.
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