Glorified Asses

Okay, so there’s all this hype about Inglorious Basterds, and it’s a war film, and I see it at the Arclight, just like The Hurt Locker… the big difference: the conceit is not supposed to be “serious,” though some of the content truly is.
Tarantino is all surface. What you see is what you get. The [...]

High Expectations

Returning from spending fifteen bucks plus parking to see colleague-praised The Hurt Locker at the Arclight, I am troubled. Not by the violent images or the overwrought sensibility, but by the hype it got.
At its core, message needs to be part of mainstream, narrative film.
The protagonist tells us that he can disarm bombs easily because [...]