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New in Theaters: Stop-Loss, 21, Fatboy

March 28, 2008 – 2:46 pm

I’m going to spend about four hours this weekend with my celebrity boyfriend, Young Albert Brooks, at Anthology Film Archives‘ double feature of two of Brooks’ early, still super-relevant films, Modern Romance and Real Life (see above). But if you’re not lucky enough to be in New York, there are three films opening in general [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film Reviews, Hollywood | Comments (0)

BlogNosh 03/27/08

March 27, 2008 – 5:32 pm

At GreenCine Daily, David Hudson rounds up the reviews of Stop-Loss, which are, surprisingly, pretty positive (Peter Keough and Bill Weber are the exceptions that prove the rule). My favorite pullquote comes, as usual, from Armond White’s mixed review: “Peirce conflates war tragedy with her own sense of melodrama, making Stop-Loss a coincidentally sexy polemic. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (2)

Iraq Films Saying Nothing New

March 24, 2008 – 10:46 am

In this longish but fascinating video companion piece to his Atlantic story on how Hollywood has reverted to 70s-style dialectics in order to talk about current global conflicts, Ross Douthat explains why the recent wave of Iraq movies haven’t connected with critics or audiences. The problem, in part, is that “Hollywood hasn’t found anything new [...]