A Decent Arrangement makes a gentle effort at the clash of civilizations, between the West and the East, in a frankly underlooked underbelly of the Orient – India – until recently; that is, until the wild success of Slumdog Millionaire. To the provincial American, it could be heard in the murmurs of business news that India possesses its own duplication of China’s enormous growth in wealth;....

In yet another tale of nihilistic Manhattan depravity, James White depicts a rowdy, restless, and agonized young man in the crutches of dealing with a world that quite simply does not give a damn. The self-destructive tendency of James, at first hinted when the film begins and then slowly but surely collects damning evidence, shows the underbelly to megalopolitan life. A life which, despite....

Consider this another exhibit of the European man’s nihilism – and it is particularly interesting how Colin Farrell is so drawn to the dying breaths of European culture, with this being sequential to his work in In Bruges. Yet here, as opposed to examining the question of man’s mortality and the worth of justice, we have the examination on man’s sexuality and the worth of posterity. And....