By • Jun 13,2008

The Promotion

Of the five new movies I saw this week (War, Inc., The Happening, The Promotion, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and Mongol), I can say without reservation that The Promotion...

By • Jun 13,2008

Who are we fighting?

Starting in 2002 during the war with Afghanistan, the United States began capturing large numbers of combatants on the battlefield. The State and Defense departments were unsure what to do...

By • Jun 13,2008

Mark Wahlberg

So, in my review of The Happening, I mention that Mark Wahlberg “regresses to the novice we saw in Boogie Nights.” His performance is just that bad. I didn’t blame...

By • Jun 12,2008

Gitmo

James is pretty much right on Guantanamo and this ruling: the problem isn’t Gitmo itself but holding people without trial (or coming up with a charge) for the better part...

By • Jun 12,2008

O Guantanamo

Snap judgment on the court´s ruling: this is the graf that counts: A second fact insufficiently appreciated by the dissents is the length of the disputed imprisonments, some of the...

By • Jun 12,2008

Neocons love Westerns

Like most art, film can be interpreted any which way you please. All you have to do is make the case. So I’m relatively sympathetic to James’s argument that the...