They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Louder Than a Bomb (2010)
I have to admit that before seeing Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel’s documentary Louder Than a Bomb, I had never given much thought to rap music or to poetry slams. I have dismissed rap music as a musical conduit that celebrates a culture of guns, drugs, lewdness, racism, sexism and swagger. Poetry slams, I have […]
Iron Man 2 (2010)
“Iron Man 2” is a curious misfire. Given that the original 2008 film pulled the superhero genre out of the cape and cowl doldrums and gave it a rock star status, this one seems less focused, less confident. The other film had a firm narrative, a good story, but this one seems to be put […]
