Ponyo (2008)
Although Ponyo seems as disjointed and free-floating as Howl’s Moving Castle, somehow the younger milieu here makes it more acceptable. Or maybe it’s just that there’s more here to latch onto emotionally.
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Mar 2, 2010
2012 (2009)
Then there’s the scene in which President Glover, as an ecumenical prayer on behalf of the world, starts to recite Psalm 23 — but the transmission cuts out before he can even finish the first line. What, Ejiofor gets to cite Cusack’s crappy fiction again and again, but the president can’t get off one lousy Bible verse at the end of the world? Here is a melancholy thought: How many people in the audience won’t even know how “The Lord is my shep…” ends, or where it’s
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
The Things are potent symbols that refuse to yield to a single interpretation. Carol blends Max’s angry, destructive impulses and anxieties with Max’s mother’s concern and, dimly, the reassuring voice of the father who isn’t there. It’s not hard to see where Carol and KW’s quarrels come from, and KW’s absences are the flip side of Carol’s surrogate fatherhood, but Max’s sister is also in KW, off cavorting with her new friends and leaving Carol, and thus Max, in the lurch.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
Coinciding with this week’s DVD release of Ponyo, Laputa: Castle in the Sky gets a new 2-disc special edition, along with Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbor
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Coinciding with this week’s DVD release of Ponyo, Kiki’s Delivery Service gets a new 2-disc special edition, along with My Neighbor Totoro and Laputa: Castle in the
Feb 23, 2010
The Informant! (2009)
Each of us would like to think that, in such situations as the movie poses, we would do the right thing; in moments of crisis, we tell ourselves that that is what we have done. The Informant! confronts us with the inveterate human capacity for self-justification and self-deception, and the extent to which we are all prone to casting ourselves as the hero of our own drama and the victim of our own
